Egg Hunting

Today is Easter, which means that I woke up this morning to my mom trying to sneak a basket full of candy into my room at some ungodly hour. We take our holidays very seriously at the Rowan household. Later in the afternoon, we celebrated the traditional Rowan Easter party complete with an Easter egg hunt for the kids. This took me back to years past, when my mom included lacy thongs and other raunchy items in the eggs. My sister and I were about 15, and mortified.

Anyways, I thought that today was an important time to write a little something about the relationship between Christianity and environmentalism.

There are a number of groups which encourage connections between spirituality and nature - some of these groups are politically active and others less so or not at all For example, REEP is a religious charity which "provides unusual and thought-provoking resources for teachers and learners promoting the links between religions and the environment." They work with religious groups of any denomination to raise awareness of environmental issues and are oriented around educational, rather than political issues.

Do you think that religion can play an important role in the environmental movement?