Conference Presentation

Lowell Bliss: Faith and the Earth

Lowell Bliss blends theology, ecology, and global mission to explore how faith meets today’s world challenges with wisdom, humility, and practical missional insight.


  • Founder of the Eden Vigil initiative

  • Former missionary and environmental educator in South Asia

  • Focuses on creation care, sustainability, and Christian witness

  • Environmental Missions

    Environmental Missions defines an emerging category in missions, one that takes seriously both the mandate to evangelize the world and the responsibility of caring for God’s good earth.

  • People, Trees, and Poverty

    With climate change and the environment making headlines on an almost-daily basis, followers of Christ can find themselves asking, “What’s my role in this? What’s my responsibility?”

  • Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church

    How should Christians react to environmental crisis?

Conference Presentation

The Death of Environmentalism

In this ASA 2023 paper, Lowell Bliss examines how the creation care movement must rethink its roots within evangelicalism. He calls for “re-potting” the movement to address justice, theology, and global responsibility in a changing climate.

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