September 25, 1998

Xavier U. Professor Seeks a Role for Religion in Saving the Planet

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

Mentioning God in the same breath as global warming makes some people edgy. Talk like that conjures up images of tree-hugging priests and all-night prayer vigils on the banks of polluted rivers.

Brennan R. Hill, the head of the theology department here at Xavier University, shrugs off the jokes about Greenpeace meeting the God Squad. The environment is in trouble, he says, and religion can help.

He rattles off a few of the more

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