‘Plastic Jesus’ Campaign Helps Faith Communities Ditch Plastic

By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black (WIB) – When many congregations gather for worship on Sunday, April 21, they will sing hymns, read scriptures, and recite much of their liturgy molded around the care and feeding of the earth — all in observation of Earth Day, which is Monday, April 22.  Environmental love is a factor of the dominion Christians claim as their spiritual heritage. RELATED:& Tax Breaks Mean More Plastic Pollution for Black Folks “The earth is the Lord’s, the fulness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein” can be found in the 24th Psalm. But as God’s people belong to him, so does the responsibility to maintain the planet belong to them. That’s why this year, Creation Justice Ministries, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, is focused on helping folks eliminate single-use plastic from our lives. They emphasize that there’s no plastic in the Bible. To that end, the nonprofit — which educates, equips, and mobilizes people to protect, restore, and rightly share God’s creation — developed a free downloadable resource, “Plastic Jesus: Real Faith in a Synthetic World.”& “We in the present-day Western world have more distance from the world of the Bible than any...