The Greening of the Cross

July 1997 NewsletterNewsletter Archives: https://www.thebereancall.org/newslettersNewsletters in Spanish: https://www.thebereancall.org/spanishNewsletters in German: https://www.thebereancall.org/germanAudio Newsletters: https://www.thebereancall.org/newsletter/audioPrintable Newsletters: https://www.thebereancall.org/newsletter/pdfThe "Gaia hypothesis" is taken seriously at gatherings of scientists seeking to restore and preserve the Earth. Goddess worship is, of course, promoted by feminists, even by some who call themselves Christians. Rosemary Radford Ruether, professor of theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, has written Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing. Consider the "Re-Imagining God, the Community and the Church" conference held in 1993. One of the speakers was Chung Kyun Kyung, a South Korean Presbyterian. In her plenary address to this "Christian" gathering, Chung declared,Endnotes(1) Earth & Spirit: The Spiritual Dimension of the Environmental Crisis, International Conference brochure sponsored by Chinook Learning Center, Seattle, WA, Oct. 19-21, 1990.(2) The Moscow Plan of Action of the Global Forum on Environment and Development for Human Survival, Jan. 1990 (final draft), 9.(3) Ibid., 12.(4) Ibid.(5) Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Random House, 1980), 243.(6) The Oregonian, Sept.13, 1992, Forum 4.(7) Parade Magazine, Mar. 1, 1992.(8) Cited in Ground Zero (C.T. Communications, Box 612, Gladstone, MB R0J 0T0, Canada, Oct./Nov., 1996), 8.(9) From a brochure promoting the event and sent out by Marilyn Ferguson and her Brain/Mind Newsletter.(10) Foundation, July/Aug. 1994, 6-7.(11) Christian News, Mar. 21, 1994, 8.(12) Christian News, Feb. 5, 1996, 1.(13) O Timothy, 11:3, 1994.(14) O Timothy, 9:1, 1992.(15) Ed McGaa, Eagle Man, Rainbow Tribe: Ordinary People Journeying on the Red Road (Harper San Francisco, 1992), 3.(16) Los Angeles Times, Feb. 5, 1993.(17) Laura Sessions Stepp, "Creation theories aside, they join forces to save the Earth," The Morning News Tribune (May 24, 1992), A3.(18) "Religious Leaders Join Scientists in Ecological Concerns," Christianity Today (Aug.19, 1991), 49.(19) Tarrytown News (Nov. 1984), 5.(20) Calvary Contender (June 15, 1996).(21) Christian News, Mar. 21, 1994, 8.(22) Norman Vincent Peale, PLUS: The Magazine of Positive Thinking, 37:4, May 1986, Part II, 23.