What, then, is our role as creatures in the face of climate crisis? It is not to sit back and do nothing, shrugging with indifference, because we think Christ will do it all. Neither is our role one of being overwhelmed because the challenges are so grave.

Our role is to get in line and follow Christ’s own journey of reconciliation and solidarity with the whole creation; naming, protecting, teaching, changing our own habits of consumption, and foreswearing the assumption that the earth exists for us to use up.

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