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Green Gospels: Environmental movement aims for religious mainstream
"The environment brings a sense of urgency and shared purpose that few other issues can bring...It cuts across all religious traditions."
"Religion is built on story telling. The stories reach people in ways that academics or activists or NGOs cannot,"
- Mary Evelyn Tucker, a co-founder of the Forum on Religion and Ecology
"Religion is built on story telling. The stories reach people in ways that academics or activists or NGOs cannot,"
- Mary Evelyn Tucker, a co-founder of the Forum on Religion and Ecology
Athens, Greece - More than a decade ago on an Aegean island, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians made a startling proposition: That pollution and other attacks on the environment could be considered sins.
At the time, the idea earned him little more than a nickname the "green patriarch."
It's no longer such a radical view.
Eco-friendly attitudes have increasingly moved into the mainstream of many faiths - from Muslim clerics urging water conservation in the fast-growing Gulf states to evangelical preachers in the United States calling attention to global warming.