Everyone and everything, it seems, is “going green.” There are fuel efficient hybrid cars, energy chiseling appliances, low-voltage corkscrew light bulbs, sod roofs now called “sky gardens,” and solar panels. Recycling is the new mainline religion, especially after the horrific BP disaster in the Gulf. Throwing away a plastic bottle is a major heresy. The new mission statement of the corporate world seems to be or will soon be “Green is green.”

One of the latest “green” products is also one of the loudest. “Sunchips,” a yummy little whole grain snack food, has “trashed” its old plastic bag packaging for a new “green” container. [You should now bring out a couple of bags, one to use as a prop and a couple more to pass around the congregation. Then you can spend the rest of your sermon re…