Read Genesis 1:26 and 2:15,19-20. Do these passages apply to us today? What does dominion really mean?
St Francis is the patron saint of ecology, and he viewed all of creations as a type of incarnation. Ilia Delio put it succinctly in Care for Creation: "Francis teaches us that God is incarnate in all of creation, and that entering in the cloister of creation helps us to deepen out relationship with our Creator."
Do you think that care for creation is something that can be left up to a few individuals, or does the responsibility rest on all of us? Can a person reach perfection in Christ without a respect for creation?
What is different about the United States that causes it to be the heaviest consumer of non-renewable natural resources and the biggest generator of pollution per capita on the planet? Do these aspects lead us away from God, or towards God? What does the antithesis of these aspects look like, from a political, economic, and cultural perspective?
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