The two most important events in human history are God’s arrival on earth in human form as a baby at Christmas and his bodily resurrection at Easter.
During Advent, we await an event whose transcendent significance changes every life it truly touches, not just for a lifetime, but for eternity.
How can one possibly reduce this to the mundane, the humdrum, the here-and now? Impossible for most, I should think. But not for an Anglican bishop. Here we have the bishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, Sam Rose (he/him) tagging Advent with Climate Change.
He is quoting bishop Nicholas Holtam (sadly lacking pronouns) who, we can only assume, also spends his time diligently reducing Christianity to temporal trifles. He warns anyone willing to listen (almost no one): “We can run headlong into disaster”. And who better to know than Anglican bishops who have had so much experience running their own churches headlong into disaster?
It seems to me that we have different opinions about the reason causing global warming. From my perspective, the universe had a beginning, and it will end eventually. Our sun will not live forever. Life on earth will vanish also.
Climate change – whatever its merits – is an entirely secular issue like driving licences, the Apple/Android phone debate or pizza toppings. You can be a Christian and agree with the climate agenda, you can be a Christian and disagree with it. You can also still be a Christian and entirely ignore it.