Creation Care: Limit & Lower Carbon Pollution

Creation Care: Limit & Lower Carbon Pollution

On an ongoing basis, the Lutheran Coalition Public Policy in Minnesota (LCPPM) encourages our legislators to be responsible stewards of God's Creation. As people of faith, “We see the despoiling of the environment as nothing less than the degradation of God’s gracious gift of creation.” (ELCA, 1993).

LCPPM specifically supports policies that limit and lower carbon pollution. We will also defend the bi-partisan policies in place to protect the environment from other forms of pollution.

Further, “We of the ELCA are deeply concerned about the environment, locally and globally, as members of this church as members of society. Even as we join the political, economic and scientific discussion, we know care for the earth to be a profoundly spiritual matter.” (ELCA, 1993).

Read more of the ELCA’s 1993 Social Statement on the Environment, Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope, and Justice.

Further background on ELCA policy basis

 

 

Lutherans Restoring Creation

LCPPM will also continue working with Lutherans Restoring Creation, a grass roots movement within the ELCA, seeking to foster care for God's good creation in all expressions of our church's life. Lutherans Restoring Creation is a program designed to encourage the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) to incorporate care for creation into its full life and mission at all levels. LRC is inviting ELCA members to become partners in these efforts at the congregational, synodical, seminary, and national levels. The goal is to incorporate care for creation into the organizational patterns, worship life, educational programs, responsibility for buildings and grounds, lifestyle of members at home and work, and public ministry of all of these institutions, so that earthkeeping and justice for all earth community becomes integral to the identity and purpose of our church.

For more information, visit the Lutherans Restoring Creation website.

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