Chicago Interfaith Movement Aids the Environment

April 16, 2004

Source: The Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0404160046apr16,1,951926.story?coll=chi-newslocalchicago-hed

On April 16, 2004 The Chicago Tribune reported on "Faith in Place, an interfaith organization that works with Chicago-area religious leaders on environmental issues. The network consists of 85 congregations in Chicago and its suburbs and represents a broad spectrum of faiths, including Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, Baha'i, Zoroastrian and Buddhist. The Chicago-area projects are examples of a growing faith-based environmental movement nationwide. 'They really are starting to see that the application of faith requires that they live within the boundaries, the limitations of nature,' said Rev. Clare Butterfield, director of Faith in Place. 'Those are God's physical limits, as it were, as much as the moral limits. We have to be just in the way that we share resources.'"

See also: Interfaith, Civic