ThinkFwd: EP016 Ben Lowe - Sustainable Creation CareLook at the major world crises and you?re likely to find their roots in the environment, says Ben Lowe, author of Green Revolution, in a recent interview with ThinkFwd host Spencer Burke. Whether it?s a food, water, or energy crisis, natural disaster or disease?these significant problems likely stem from environmental issues, and affect much more than the environment?they affect the lives of people in our neighborhoods and around the world.
Lowe was born and raised in Singapore, the son of missionaries from a conservative Christian background. Although he heard many sermons about God and creation, he never connected caring for the earth with his faith until he was in college. There his thinking crystallized when he realized that caring for creation and for people go hand in hand. ?I can?t love God and my neighbor if I don?t care for what God made (the earth and all creation) and what my neighbor needs for survival,? says Ben. You can become overwhelmed if you think of the world?s problems, for example, ...