Let's try this out!
I'm a Presbytery minister in the Uniting Church in Australia. My job's to care for ministers in Sydney's west, and the mountains to the west.
At the same time I'm passionate about the environment. I've recently completed a PhD in "ecotheology", looking at how we westerners have affected the waterways of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia's largest (by area) river system, and for some years I've been a presenter for The Climate Project. We presenters present versions of Al Gore's climate change slide show that formed the basis of his Oscar award-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth".
And I'm passionate about helping in God's mission on planet earth. For several years during the '80s I worked in a leprosy hospital in south India, and I retain a love for that country, and for other "majority world" countries. I travelled to Jakarta, Indonesia for further training from Al Gore in January this year. In June my wife and I will visit East Timor with a view to helping there some day. And late this year I'll go back to India in my holidays to try to lend a helping hand there.
So, eco-missio-log. "Log", of course, is short for "logos", the Christian "word", which means "message", and also symbolises and names Jesus Christ.
That'll do for now. May God bless you and yours this Easter!
David Reichardt, ecomissiolog.
