When I conducted a focus group at this church, the end times seemed to be on everyone’s mind. When we talked about caring for the environment, “Craig” cautioned that it was important to draw the line between protecting the creation and worshipping it, while “Julie” agreed, adding that, “like with the polar bears and stuff, of course I don’t want them to die, but you also have to realize this is just a part of the world coming to an end like it’s supposed to. And there’s nothing really that they can do.”
Robin Globus Veldman
Robin Globus Veldman is a PhD candidate at the University of Florida in the Religion Department. A Tedder Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities and an NSF-IGERT trainee, her dissertation examines how end time beliefs influence conservative Christians’ attitudes toward the environment and climate change.
