“Your conference blew me away!”

This was coming from a Professor of Pastoral Studies at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST) during a visit over lunch about 10 days ago in the school cafeteria. He was telling us of his own longstanding concern for the environment in Kenya. He has land – a family farm, we would say – a couple of hours east of Nairobi, and he has been planting trees there for many years. As with many of his generation (I would guess he is in his fifties), he has watched the population explode and creation collapse throughout his homeland. An academic with a Ph. D. from a western university, he is as aware and knowledgeable as anyone of theology, economics and environmental issues.