Change of Heart: Evangelicals and the Environment

By George R. Hunter
NPR recently reported that Richard Cizik, vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals, has teamed up with scientists to lobby Washington on environmental issues.

Long considered the domain of liberal fear-mongers, the environment was overlooked by Evangelicals, but Cizik has been instrumental in pushing Evangelicals in a greener direction. Cizik frames the environmental issues as a sanctity-of-life issue: "If coal-burning utility plants emit nitrous oxides, mercury, which is then transmitted into our rivers and lakes, ingested by fish eaten by pregnant women who then pass it along to their unborn children and babies, then isn't that a sanctity-of life-issue?"[1]

Interesting here is the (much welcomed) shift in the framing of the environmental narrative, but will the flock follow?
[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6935508