The Biblical support for a greener Christmas

For the last few years, my sister and I have been sewing reusable wrapping. We buy lovely cotton cloth in Christmas prints, hem the material, tie with ribbon, and reuse the fabrics every year. They look beautiful under the tree — and it feels good to celebrate Christmas in a way that doesn’t add to the planet’s waste.

But did you know that Christmas itself is the ultimate reason to care for the earth? Not the commercial one, with glitter and excess, but the real one... “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1v14).

God's creation is good, and powerfully declares His glory. The earth is breathtakingly beautiful... but also painfully broken. It suffers from disease, decay and violence. Humans exploit and harm each other — and even nature itself can be cruel, as any David Attenborough documentary shows.