Call to Hope and Action
Bishops' letter pledges to protect God's creation
By Kathy L. Gilbert*
Nov. 3, 2009 | LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C. (UMNS)
Pandemic poverty and disease, environmental degradation and a world full of weapons and violence are the wages of our sins against God’s creation.
But there is hope if we change our ways, the 69 active United Methodist bishops say in a pastoral letter that will be read in churches during Advent.
The bishops at their fall meeting unanimously approved “God’s Renewed Creation: Call to Hope and Action,” a document that was started by the 2004 United Methodist General Conference. More than 5,400 United Methodists around the world have had input into the final document.
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