{"id":3034,"date":"2011-04-22T10:09:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2011-04-22T10:09:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:09:39","slug":"good-friday-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2011\/04\/22\/good-friday-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday + Earth Day = ???"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This year gives us a strange confluence of Good Friday<\/strong> and Earth Day<\/strong>, both occurring today.\u00a0 One might think that you\u2019d have to do some intellectual gymnastics to find a connection between the two.\u00a0 But Craig Goodwin does it, without the gymnastics.<\/p>\n

Craig, author of Year of Plenty<\/strong>: One Suburban Family, Four Rules, and 365 Days of Homegrown Living in Pursuit of Christian Adventure<\/em><\/a>, has a post at CNN\u2019s Belief Blog<\/a> in which he explores how the two observances do have some synergy.\u00a0 He begins by noting that it\u2019s an uneasy connection:<\/p>\n

Given the sensitive nature of Good Friday, I think there is good reason to be cautious in making connections. In a popular culture that has a knack for seamlessly combining cultural narratives, it\u2019s important to not carelessly turn Good Friday and Earth Day into some kind of earthy, spiritual, \u201cInception\u201d-meets-\u201cToy Story 3\u201d mashup<\/a>. Instead of mixing metaphors and liturgies, I think the most helpful approach is to simply answer the question this coincidence brings to the surface: Does the death of the Jesus on the cross have anything to do with caring for the Earth?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But he goes on to explain how the two work in tandem:<\/p>\n

I think a faithful reading of the Good Friday service of Tenebrae \u2013 in which candles are extinguished one by one, congregants leave the church in silence, and the cross is shrouded in a black cloth \u2013 demands that the church answer this question with an emphatic, Yes!<\/em><\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t always been so passionate about this, but my work as a pastor and my family\u2019s journey over the last few years has changed that. Four years ago my church started a farmers\u2019 market<\/a> in the parking lot and more recently helped turn an abandoned industrial lot into a community garden<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Craig is at the beginning of what I think will be a growing movement: pastors who engage their congregations in issues of food-justice.\u00a0 His post<\/a> \u2014 and book<\/a> \u2014 are worth reading, and his challenges worth considering.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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