posted April 9, 2008
) Dr. Jim Ball |
Dr. Ball and Mr. Laushkin will be speaking on The Gospel and Global Warming. The lecture will explore what are the people of God doing to respond to this crisis? And will ask, what do we need to know when it comes to climate change? What can each of us do to be faithfully witnesses of the gospel on this issue?
Dr. Ball has been interested in an evangelical position on environmental issues since 1994 when he began serious research into environmental problems with an emphasis on global warming after being inspired by a fellow graduate student. This research evolved into Dr. Ball's dissertation which focused on how evangelicals have responded to the ecological crisis. His subsequent years of research on global warming resulted in a primer for Christians on the subject published by Evangelicals for Social Action in 1998 entitled Planting a Tree This Afternoon: Global Warming, Public Theology and Public Policy. Before becoming the executive director of the EEN in 2000, Dr. Ball worked as the Climate Change Coordinator for the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, DC.
Dr. Ball received his Ph.D. from Drew University, his M. Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and his B.A. in psychology from Baylor University. Dr. Ball and his wife Kara live in Brunswick, Md., with their dog Mugsy, cats Spit, Queen Emma, and Midnite, and Iggy the Iguana.
Mr. Laushkin is a program assistant at the Evangelical Environmental Network, he has helped staff the Evangelical Climate Initiative since 2005 and currently attends Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington DC. Mr. Laushkin and his wife Kassandra live in Alexandria, Va.
For more information contact Whitney Hemphill at 614-8644.
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