Peter Harris is a dedicated advocate for conservation, and shares his journey of working with A Rocha, a Christian conservation organization he co-founded over four decades ago. Peter shares how his faith-driven approach has helped him develop practical responses, and fostered connections between love for God, care for creation, and environmental stewardship.
Quotes
“It's quite clear that we are facing a climate crisis. In the lifetime of A Rocha—which is just 40 years—we have lost half of life on Earth, so you could call it the thinning of life, the disappearance of species and the collapse of populations.” - Peter Harris
“For a Christian organization that really believes that our life on Earth is intended to be a response to a loving creator, it is who we are in that relationship of worship and obedience that is going to be the wellspring for our actions.” - Peter Harris
“I think that many of our human rhythms and surroundings are artifacts of a commercial effort. We're surrounded by all we have done and what we have made. And it's often noisy and incoherent. Whereas Creation speaks of its Creator, as Scripture envisages creation as a kind of choir.” - Peter Harris
“We care for God's creation because it's God's creation. He loves it far more than we do. And because it is the fundamental thing about being human that we first learn in Genesis that we are in the garden to care for it. The two big Bible words are to care for and to serve the creation. That's what it is to be human. That's why we do it. We don't do it because we have hopes of some campaign of saving the earth. The world has a Savior, and it's not us.” - Peter Harris
Guest’s Links
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
A Rocha International
Kingfisher’s Fire: A Story of Hope for God’s Earth by Peter Harris
Under the Bright Wings by Peter Harris
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Jesus Storybook Bible Facebook
Jesus Storybook Bible Instagram
*Episode produced by Four Eyes Media*
