ANN | Adventists Should Embrace Environmental Concern, Church Experts Say
Wonder how long it took 'em to figure that one out.
The interesting thing is that two of the three 'experts' cited are from the health arm of the Adventist church. Adventists find spiritual significance in living a healthy lifestyle (we're quite good at it), and the M.D.s cited in this story realize that it's hard to be healthy if your environment is polluted. The theologian took the old stewardship of God's creation line, but arguing for environmental concern because we are stewards of our bodies is new to me.
This health argument is a good one. If we actually understood that our body temples are made of "dust", we'd find it important to care for the "dust". It remains to be seen if this will become mainstream Adventist thought, but it's worth noting that the most 'liberal' ideas in Adventism have entered through the health movement (e.g. vegetarianism).
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