Eco-Justice
Eco-Justice, as faith practice, understands there can be no social justice without ecological justice.
We are inter-related, so eco-justice tackles both.
It believes the non-human nature has rights also and suffers due to human sin (Rom 8:22).
Both realms are in need of liberation.
We are inter-related, so eco-justice tackles both.
It believes the non-human nature has rights also and suffers due to human sin (Rom 8:22).
Both realms are in need of liberation.
Eco-Justice is Creation Care
Shifting the Foundations of Eco-Theology to Include Stewardship, Justice, and Spirituality
An uneasy feeling moves freely through the air these days, while the words of the Gospel keep proclaiming: “Go! and share the Good News with all Creation” (Mark 16:15).
As a pastor of a Latino/a ministry, I find myself struggling, daily, seeking to find new depths for the Evangelist’s words—while I respond to the urgent needs of real people, without forgetting the rest of the earth. Yes! I need to confess: my middle class, westernized-Latina self hoped, when committing to eco-justice ministry that sharing the Good News would always be an easy, fun and far reaching endeavor. But reality increasingly continues to show me otherwise.
Eco-justice work is complicated, and in many countries today is even dangerous. It touches and challenges many aspects of social life and special interests but it is necessary if we want to seriously and faithfully care for God’s earth in a sustainable and transcendent manner.
Neddy Astudillo
Shifting the Foundations of Eco-Theology to Include Stewardship, Justice, and Spirituality
An uneasy feeling moves freely through the air these days, while the words of the Gospel keep proclaiming: “Go! and share the Good News with all Creation” (Mark 16:15).
As a pastor of a Latino/a ministry, I find myself struggling, daily, seeking to find new depths for the Evangelist’s words—while I respond to the urgent needs of real people, without forgetting the rest of the earth. Yes! I need to confess: my middle class, westernized-Latina self hoped, when committing to eco-justice ministry that sharing the Good News would always be an easy, fun and far reaching endeavor. But reality increasingly continues to show me otherwise.
Eco-justice work is complicated, and in many countries today is even dangerous. It touches and challenges many aspects of social life and special interests but it is necessary if we want to seriously and faithfully care for God’s earth in a sustainable and transcendent manner.
Neddy Astudillo
