What if we began lobbying on religious grounds for environmental stewardship?
Calvin was the first theologian to formulate the modern concept of stewardship as religious duty.
And the core religious values of simplicity, stewardship, humility, patience, and modesty are now just what we need.
Other institutions considered include a consolidated national stewardship organization, a religious organization, and a new state of the union called the Legacy State.
In a separate development, Shimon Peres, the dovish leader of Israel's opposition Labor Party, suggested putting the important religious shrines in Jerusalem under United Nations stewardship.
Bush makes two erroneous assumptions with an attempt to compartmentalize ethics as being discreetly secular or religious, and to assert that the environmental stewardship that has been entrusted to us as humans should be segmented from public policy.
Rather than debate the religious issue of whether human beings were actually "given" stewardship of the earth, let me suggest that if they were, that stewardship, that dominion, is best interpreted after the fashion of the "mandate of Heaven" shouldered by the emperor's of ancient China.
Under Strachan's stewardship, King's College was a religious institution that closely aligned with the Church of England and the British colonial elite, known as the Family Compact.
A stewardship program with no testing is "a religious exercise, not science," said Dr. Merri Wood, a senior designer of nuclear weaponry at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
On February 25, the White House convened a conference on environmental stewardship and climate change with leaders of religious communities from around the U.S.
