What is the link between creation and redemption? What responsibility do we as humans have in creation, and what practical actions we should take now to glorify Christ and advance his kingdom?
The L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture is proud to announce The Goodness of Creation and Human Responsibility (Feb. 18-20, 2021)— a Faith + Culture Forum designed to address these important questions.
In this post, get to know one of our speakers, Dr. Rusty Pritchard.
Lowell (Rusty) Pritchard is a natural resource economist and Vice President at Tearfund USA, an evangelical nonprofit that works alongside local churches all over the world to overcome poverty and injustice. He has worked for over 30 years at the intersection of environment and international economic development, and he has worked with Tearfund since 2013. Between 1999 and 2006 he helped to create and lead Emory University’s Department of Environmental Studies.
Rusty and his wife Joanna have been married since 1989 and live in Decatur, GA, where he is an elder at All Souls Fellowship. They have a son away at college, a son in high school, and a daughter in middle school.
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The Goodness of Creation and Human Responsibility.
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[…] Rusty Pritchard is an economist and ecologist. In his talk, he explored the biblical basis for creation care. He noted that many believers have never heard theology applied to environmental issues. But if Godâs word speaks to all of life, then it certainly speaks to our interaction with the natural world. We would be wise not to speak carelessly â and recklessly â without properly applying a biblical theology to these problems. […]