Links to Your World, Tuesday April 22

As promised, here are some Earth Day links:

Check out the Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative at BaptistCreationCare, launched by PK and seminary student Jonathan Merritt and supported by several key SBC leaders.

The Evangelical Environmental Network has some good material, especially their scripture page.

Listen to Krista Tippett’s interview with Calvin DeWitt, an evangelical Christian and professor at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

DeWitt outlines seven of God's magnificent provisions in creation and seven of man's degradations of those provisions in an important Christianity Today piece here.

Other links to your world:

“Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay”: the winning 6-word motto for the United States at the Freakonomics website (via: Neatorama).

Thabiti Anyabwile brought an excellent message on race at last week's "Together for the Gospel" conference. Listen to "Bearing the Image: Identity, the Work of Christ, and the Church" (Play). Thabiti now serves as pastor at my former church, the First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman.

Favorable opinion of Oprah Winfrey has slipped from 74 percent to 55 percent since she announced her endorsement of Barack Obama for President a year ago. (story)

"Surveying the big picture, [the pastor of one of the largest and most influential evangelical conregations in the Middle East] believes a religious earthquake is shaking the Middle East, leading to many new conversions from Islam. ‘For years, there were only hundreds converting from Islam to Christianity. Very confidential, very low key,’ he said. ‘Now [converts] are writing their stories. They are in chatrooms. The voice of converts for the first time is being heard. The numbers are beyond estimation. It's an iceberg. If you hear a thousand, then there are 100,000 beneath the surface.” (in Christianity Today magazine)

From the Statesman: We owe Tipper Gore an apology. Good article, and it's interesting how opinions of popular culture change once you have a kid to raise.

“I Grew Up in a Polygamist Family.”

From the "That-Headline-Could-Use-More-Editing" Department:

"Sect Mothers Appeal to Texas Governor” And I bet Mrs. Perry is none too pleased.

Should Alamo survivor be moved to Texas State Cemetery?" Do we bury survivors?