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Article: Making it real: how to live as if another world were already here.(faith; environment)
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- January 1, 2008
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A GROWING NUMBER OF CHRISTIANS, out of a concern for global warming, are finding ways to reduce their carbon footprint. Others are searching less successfully for ways to create a more authentic embodied faith. The problem is that most resources on embodied faith offer very few practical examples.
Many of my generation were drawn in the early 1980s to the call from Ron Sider's Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger to "live more simply that others might simply live." But as the global economy booms, that call seems to have lost its influence with many Christians.
Besides, while simplifying our lives is important, we won't ...