Rev. Ben Lowe (守仁) is the chairperson of A Rocha USA and also serves as a trustee for A Rocha International. He is the author of Green Revolution, Doing Good Without Giving Up, and The Future of Our Faith (coauthored with Ron Sider) and is currently completing a doctorate at the University of Florida. For more info: benlowe.net
‘If you’re asking me to choose between conservation and development, I’m going to choose development every time.’ We received this comment repeatedly when we first arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
When I Google ‘Do material things matter to God?’ I find over 20,000,000 results. Some sites warn of the dangers material things pose to our relationship with God; others claim to give the secret of material prosperity. It seems Christians are mightily confused about whether the stuff we think we own, the world of nature, even our own bodies, are deep-down good or not.
I’m just back from Hong Kong. It was an encouraging trip for all our small team from the region, but I was also able to fulfil a long-held dream when I finally got to visit Mai Po. This important wetland is one of the very few remaining on the south China coast, and the numbers of shorebirds are increasing because other places where birds can feed and roost undisturbed are disappearing so fast.
