; Hidden Dangers in National Day of Prayer for Creation Care

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The Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) has chosen Friday as the National Day of Prayer for Creation Care. While I'm wholeheartedly in favor of praying for a clean, healthful, beautiful Earth every day, I'm cautious about this campaign.

What raised my concern was the campaign's central emphasis this year: "The day will focus on the impacts of mercury on the unborn," EEN said in an email. Then, on its website, the page called "Mercury & the Unborn" claimed, "Approximately one in every six babies in the U.S. are born with harmful mercury levels in their blood." Finally, a fact sheet on "Mercury and the Unborn Child" claimed, "The main source of mercury pollution is dirty air released by coal-burning power plants."

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; Hidden Dangers in National Day of Prayer for Creation Care

Those three statements raised my suspicions and set me about obeying Scripture's command to "test all things, hold fast what is good" (1 Thessalonians 5:21).

The reference to coal-burning power plants was suspect immediately. Why? F...

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