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A dialogue on earth care opened Friday night at Western Kentucky University with a keynote address from speaker and author Dr. Matthew Sleeth, who told the audience that the nation’s diverse congregations must bridge barriers, overcome biases and take action to achieve environmental and spiritual sustainability on a dying planet Earth.
The... More...
Blessed Earth To Host Live Simulcast from Northland Church in Orlando on April 21; Thousands of Churches To Participate In Unique Interactive Experience
Wilmore, KY -- One night, one message: The Church United. On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, the eve of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, the non-profit organization Blessed Earth and other... More...
By LIZ SWITZER, The Daily News
Western Kentucky University’s Community Religious Literacy Project is partnering with area churches and community organizations to sponsor an interfaith conference designed to create dialogue and foster awareness of spirituality as it relates to the green movement and sustainability of the Earth -- the first... More...
By Alyce Gilligan, Relevant Magazine
Nancy Sleeth's mission, along with Blessed Earth, is to inform people of the spiritual benefits of living an environmentally conscious life. We spoke to her about how conservation creates community, small changes that make a big difference and her response to those against talking about creation... More...
CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky.— “How does God speak to you in your life?” asked Dr. Matthew Sleeth, former emergency room physician, at a Kentucky Heartland Institute on Public Policy (KHIPP) event at Campbellsville University recently.
Answers from the audience varied from sports, experiences, God’s Word, music and... More...
By Drew Dyck, Christianity Today
A few minutes into his talk on the church and the environment, Matthew Sleeth, MD, called up a young man named David to share his story.
David recounted how he had recently suffered a grand mal seizure. After a trip to the emergency room, David received some devastating news: he had an inoperable tumor the size... More...
Oct 6
Going Green for God
By Michelle Rupe Eubanks
It was that "ah-ha" moment Betty McGee said she was hoping to get from members of First Presbyterian Church of Florence.
"It came when we put recycling into context," she said of the Sunday morning experiment of separating trash from the pulpit into piles of what is garbage and what can be reused.
McGee said a... More...
By Alyce Gilligan, RELEVANT Magazine
Who would have thought that one day you would see trendy T-shirts, TV programming and teenyboppers … begging you to save the planet? Consideration and conservation have gotten increasingly trendy, yet, as most movements go, the heart behind the issue can be lost along the way. Green living becomes more... More...
Join Christian students around North America in standing together to pray for the renewal of God’s creation.
A special event, Renewal’s second annual Day of Prayer for God’s Creation, will spearhead the effort. The official focus of the prayers has been set: "Energy Stewardship & Climate Change: Recognizing the severe... More...
Sep 21
Getting Green With God
By Jesse Chambers of the Birmingham Weekly
Environmentalism must be getting popular if even Jesus is going green. And he is, big time, as an increasing number of American churchgoers come out of the closet as tree huggers.
There is a growing environmental awareness even among evangelical Christians, despite the fact that this demographic... More...
The 700 Club, hosted by Pat Robertson, aired its second of four interviews with Dr. Matthew and Nancy Sleeth Monday, August 10, 2009.
Filmed in their neighborhood and outside their home in Wilmore, KY, the second segment is titled, "Outside Green."
Be sure to watch for yourself (below), but please help us get the word out to your friends and... More...
By Robert King, Indianapolis Star
Dr. Matthew Sleeth was living large as an emergency room physician and chief of staff at a hospital -- with all the financial blessings that sounds like it might entail -- when he decided he had to give it all up to save one patient whose case superceded all others.
The Earth.
Sleeth came to this... More...
The 700 Club, hosted by Pat Robertson, aired its first of four interviews with Dr. Matthew and Nancy Sleeth on Friday, July 10. Filmed in their home in Wilmore, KY, the first segment is titled, "Inside Green."
Help us get the word out!
1. Spread the word. Have a Christian friend who is skeptical about going green? An environmentalist friend who... More...
By Sharon Thompson, The Lexington Herald-Leader
WILMORE — Nancy Sleeth doesn't use her oven very often. At least not her conventional oven. Instead, she turns to her more energy-efficient toaster oven, microwave and convection oven. When Sleeth bakes bread, she uses a bread machine.
She also uses fresh ingredients and avoids processed... More...
May 29
Caring for a Green Planet
By Rev. The Hon. Dr. Gordon Moyes, A.C., M.L.C.
The influential evangelical leader in the USA, Chuck Colson, recently broadcast on the subject (http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=11425).
Christians don’t have to let concern for the environment—that is, concern for God’s creation—be hijacked by those who are... More...
For years, legitimate environmental concerns have been wrongly exploited by activists — left and right, non-Christian and Christian. In fact, the majority of serious global environmental issues have been neglected because of politics. The “hippies” of the 70s adopted an all-or-nothing agenda of liberal ideas which happened to... More...
Blessed Earth teamed up with Houghton College for the 2008-2009 academic year to help establish a model of how a culture can shift throughout a Christian college campus.
Throughout the year, our executive director Matthew Sleeth spent one week every two months sharing the creation care message. Working with every constituency and... More...
Apr 18
It's time for us to go green
By Michelle Bearden, Tampa Tribune
It is easy being green.
At least that's how I'm feeling after a conversation with Nancy Sleeth.
I'm ready to compost a garden, ban plastic bottles, buy only organic, bicycle to work and give up air conditioning.
OK, the reality is this: I would like to do those things, but maybe that's a bit drastic for... More...
Apr 2
Going green for God
By Gina Dalfonzo, The Point
Yesterday I spoke on the phone with Nancy Sleeth. Sleeth and her husband, Matthew, are the founders of Blessed Earth, "an educational nonprofit that inspires and equips faith communities to become better stewards of the earth."
Matthew Sleeth was an emergency room physician who was becoming concerned about what he... More...
EARTH HOUR: MARCH 28, 2009
This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming.
For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for... More...
The Catalyst Conference is one of the largest and most exciting gathering of Christian leaders annually. Between conferences, Catalyst provides many products and services at CatalystSpace, their online home. One of their most attended products is the Catalyst Podcast, which features a variety of Christian personalities. This week Dr.... More...
by Aaron Ogg, The Grand Rapids Press
Humans' "moral responsibility" is to help the poor by being good stewards of the Earth, Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer said.
He told more than three dozen people at Calvin College on Saturday that climate change and U.S. energy consumption are related and are "a very serious... More...
By Brian Bethel, The
Abilene Reporter News
When he worked as an emergency medical doctor, J. Matthew Sleeth, executive director of Blessed Earth, wasn't much of a believer in matters spiritual or environmental.
Sleeth was at the height of his career living on the coast of Maine, "head of an ER, having a really great life doing work I loved... More...
From the cafeteria to the classroom, students are learning to be environmentally conscious.
By Cindy Crosby for Christianity Today
Flush twice. It's required at Calvin College's Vincent and Helen Bunker Interpretive Center's restrooms; once before, once after. The flushed water, which is the consistency of a bubble bath, washes waste to an... More...
May 1
Rx for Excess
By Andy Crouch, Christianity Today
As our family sits together, eyes closed, we say grace. Today it's Timothy's turn. "God, thank you so much for all we have," he begins in what turns into a typically prolix nine-year-old's prayer. Eventually he is done—"in Jesus' name, Amen"—and I turn the key. We have just filled up our car with... More...
Jan 22
Finding My Religion
By David Ian Miller, The San Francisco Chronicle
Scientists and evangelicals -- it seems a safe bet they'd be on opposite sides of almost any issue. But last week Harvard scientists and evangelical Christian leaders publicly joined forces to battle global warming.
"We believe that the protection of life on Earth is a profound moral... More...
By Linda Blackford, Fort Wayne News Sentinel
J. Matthew Sleeth is a man of God and a man of science.
He is a physician who believes that the Bible is the literal word of God, that Jesus Christ walked on water, and that our addiction to oil and energy is killing our spiritual lives and violating a sacred pact with God.
As a "born-again"... More...
For students and faculty within the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), one way of honoring the Creator is by taking care of His creation. In recent years, there has been a surge of "green" initiatives as member campuses of the CCCU take the environment and its impact on people into further consideration. The result:... More...
Oct 5
The Gospel of J. Matthew
An interview with J. Matthew Sleeth, evangelical environmentalist and author
By David Roberts, Grist
Q. Describe the personal journey that led you to write this book.
A. My background is in medicine, as an emergency-room doctor. I was director of an ER and chief of staff of a hospital.
When my wife and I were on vacation, she said,... More...
Sep 27
Evangelizing for the Earth
Conservative Christians are getting involved in environmental causes.
By WENDY LYONS SUNSHINE - (9/27/06)
Look around you, the physician told the group at the Texas Christian University student center. Half of the two dozen or so folks in the room, he said, probably will get some kind of cancer eventually.
“The answer is not to find the... More...