The National Religious Partnership for the Environment: What is the Partnership?

Care and respect for God’s Creation has been a perennial mandate, mission and ministry of religious life. Lately, they have spoken - and acted — in greater numbers on behalf of land, air, water and creatures, and on behalf of the vulnerable ones who suffer most from the abuse of the earth. Over a decade ago, the National Religious Partnership was established to strengthen their efforts and amplify their voices in the public square and the halls of government. Of course, just as the religious environmental movement existed before the Partnership, much work is done today in this area that has no connection with it. Such work may not label itself 'environmental,' but wherever the work of the Creator is honored and human needs for the life-sustaining gifts of the earth are met with intelligence and foresight, creation care is happening. But, by encouraging and supporting the work of faithful people across the religious spectrum — Jewish, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Mainline and Evangelical Protestant — the Partnership illustrates both the diversity of traditions that enriches and the common purpose that drives this movement.

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