Evangelicals are seen as key in climate debate

March 13, 2010

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Evangelicals are seen as key in climate debate

Panel touts nexus between spirituality and environmentalism

By Gary Soulsman
The News Journal

Young people in evangelical churches have likely never heard a sermon linking scripture with a love of creation and caring for the earth.

That explains the slowness of mainline evangelicals in signing onto the movement to lower carbon emissions and avert climate change, said the Rev. Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good.