God is Great.  Is God Green?
A Conference on Evangelicals and the Environmental Task

On November 14, 2007, the Institute on Religion and Democracy convened a conference at the Hotel Washington in downtown Washington, DC, to examine environmental issues and how evangelicals respond to them.

The conference brought together American evangelical leaders, as well as figures important to the political and non-profit spheres to discuss lectures given by some of America’s most respected scholars.

The conference also introduced the first of IRD's new Mount Nebo Papers—a report by Dr. E. Calvin Beisner entitled, "What is the Most Important Environmental Task Facing American Christians Today?"  The document is available to online subscribers for download on the IRD website.

Part I: Theology of Environmental Stewardship

A Theology of Creation and the Environment - Dr. Richard Land
President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention

Response - Dr. Steve Bouma Predinger
Jacobson Professor of Religion, Hope College (Holland, MI)

Part II: Assessing Environmental Problems (Scientific)

Manmade Global Warming: Science or Religion? - Dr. Roy Spencer
Principal Research Scientist, University of Alabama, Huntsville

Response - Dr. Steve Fetter
Associate Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute, and Vice Chairman, Federation of American Scientists

Part III: Weighing the Costs & Benefits of Possible Solutions (Economic)

Economic and Ethical Approaches to Environmental Protection - Dr. Ross McKitrick
Professor of Economics, University of Guleph

Response - Miss Eileen Norcross
Research Fellow, Government Accountability Project of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Part IV: The Environment and Poverty

Building a Brighter Future for Africa and the Third World - Mr. Paul Driessen
Senior Policy Advisor, Congress of Racial Equality

Response - Ms. Jennifer Zambone
Publications Manager, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Part V: Questions of National Interest & Sovereignty Relating to the Environment

Will the Next President Rejoin the Kyoto Protocol? - Dr. John Nagle
Professor, University of Notre Dame Law School

Response - Dr. Rusty Pritchard
National Director of Outreach, Evangelical Environmental Network; Editor, Creation Care Magazine

Part VI: Evangelicals and the Environment—How Close an Alliance?

Evangelicals and the Environment: How Close an Alliance? - Dr. Jay Richards
Director of Media and Research Fellow, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty

Response - Dr. Jim Ball
Executive Director, Evangelical Environmental Network