CANCELLED: Creation Care and the Church: An Earth Day 50th Anniversary Celebration
This event has been cancelled.
BioLogos Voices speaker Richard Lindroth will present “Creation Care and God’s World” as a part of Creation Care and the Church: A Christian Community Celebration of Earth Day 50 on Saturday, April 18, 2020 at Upper House in Madison, WI.
“In many ways, our community, Madison Wisconsin, “owns” this event: Earth Day’s founder, Gaylord Nelson, lived here and was serving as our Senator at the time; the Nelson Institute at the University of Wisconsin, named for Gaylord, is one of the world leaders in environmental studies; Cal DeWitt, one of the fathers of the evangelical creation care movement, is a member of the Madison community. It is fitting and appropriate that the Christian community in Madison come together to celebrate this important anniversary as a way of recognizing the importance of the cause of caring for God’s creation, and as a way of reaching out to our larger community.”
Featured speaker
Richard Lindroth
Rick Lindroth (Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana) is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Ecology (Emeritus) and former Associate Dean for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Distinguished Fellow of The Lumen Center (Madison, WI). His research focused on evolutionary ecology, global change ecology, and trophic dynamics in forest ecosystems. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Ecological Society of America, the Entomological Society of America, and the American Scientific Affiliation. Funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other agencies, Rick and his research group have published nearly 250 journal articles and book chapters. Rick currently works at The Lumen Center, a community of scholars working at the intersection of Christianity and culture. He speaks to public and faith-based groups about creation care, environmental stewardship, climate change, biodiversity, and science denialism/communication. Rick serves on the Board of Directors for A Rocha USA and is a member of the BioLogos Voices speaker’s bureau. He and his wife have two daughters and four grandchildren. For recreation, they enjoy road cycling, flyfishing, hiking and reading – though not necessarily in that order.