Fort Smith Times

‘The world we are helping to maliciously co-create is going to be a rough one’ says the Rev. Dr. David Williams

e inspiration to write his 2021 book “Our Angry Eden: Faith and Hope on a Hotter, Harsher Planet” came, of all places, during a meeting of National Capital Presbytery, the Rev. Dr. David Williams told Presbyterians for Earth Care during a Zoom conversation Thursday. Listen to Williams’ talk here.

“We had a meeting focused on the dynamics of Creation care, the importance of recognizing our responsibility to care for the world around us, this delicate planet we’ve been blessed with,” said the pastor of Poolesville Presbyterian Church in Poolesville, Maryland. “Our charge was to go home and reflect. How should we theologically engage? I spent the next six months writing a book about that.”

While many people think the task is caring for a delicate and fragile Creation that some argue is already broken, “I have a different reaction to that,” Williams said. “Creation is huge and terrifying … It’s not that we have to care for Creation. We have to take care around Creation.”

But because we’re “generally removed” from Creation, “we live insulated from the impacts we are having on it,” Williams said. Nonetheless, we are starting to see those impacts, including floods in Pakistan and “wild variance in weather” in Africa.

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