21st century Lent: US Christians go green, give up new media
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 07/04/2009 00:45
[AFP] From giving up their cars to abandoning their Facebook pages, many Christians in the United States are being called on to help reduce global warming and turn their backs on internet distractions over Lent.
"It's an insult to God, it's a sin to spoil the environment, to hurt creation," said Episcopalian pastor Reverend Sally Bingham, who is coordinating The Regeneration Project, an interfaith group of some 4,000 congregations looking for a religious response to global warming.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/05/2535330.htm
