The Bible is bathed with images of God caring for his creating in all its complexity. Yet in the face of climate change and other environmental trends, we continually hear that a so-called perfect storm of factors threatens the future of life on earth. Jonathan Moo and Robert White ask, "do these dire predictions amount to nothing more then ideological scaremongering...? Or are there good reasons for thinking that we may indeed be facing a crisis unprecedented in its scale and in the severity of its effects?" The authors encourage us to assess the evidence for ourselves. Their own conclusion is that there is in fact plenty of cause for concern. Yet is the Christian gospel fundamentally reorients us in our relationship to God and his world, there ought to be a place for hope. Moo and White reflect on the difference in the Bible's vision of the future of all of creation makes.
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