Ecology

I function in the world as a concerned person for all aspects of the world trying to live as freely and unselfishly as possible doing all the good i can, doing little harm, and being in love with God. I try to live practical by understanding the role I have been given by being a living creature with full responsibility of the world around me. My interactions with the non-human world are foundationally based on the fact that I have responsibility to care for the world around me. I place humans at the very most important responsibility. I have developed this ecological attitude from my understanding of the relationship I have with God. I have developed a large degree of my attitude with the help of John Wesley's writing and his understand of grace and grace theology. John Wesley said "Do no harm, Do all the good you can, and stay in love with God" Wesley’s words have helped to shape my understanding of ecology. The last part "stay in love with God" is foundational for me to understand ecology. Staying in love with God means many things but one thing it means is putting value in everything.

I think Jay McDaniel's proposed ethic is more similar to mine than it is different. I think a similar idea is that we both place value in all things. I think we differ in that I place the ultimate value in humans were Jay may not. I am not sure if Jay would say that all of our ethic should arise from striving to stay in love with God and that idea and that relationship with God being foundational to our ecological position.

I don't know? I would continue but iam running out of time!