We are very excited about this program, and as it has come from the ever-creative Ruth Valerio, we asked her to send us a few words about The Oikos Network*. Here’s Ruth: I’m delighted to let you know about a new initiative with A Rocha International, Tearfund and the Lausanne […]
Monthly Archives: October 2021
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Our friends at CCOP (Christian Climate Observers Program) recently told us about this effort to get people praying before and during the upcoming COP26 meetings in Glasgow, Scotland: Recently, several creation care organizations launched a campaign called #ClimateVigil. Together, they are calling millions of Christians around the world to pray […]
There is a theory that the apartheid system in South Africa finally collapsed because of a concerted global effort to divest (remove investment funds) from businesses and other entities that had any connections to that country or the apartheid system. The same thing may be happening with fossil fuels and […]
Last May 22 the Nyriagongo volcano in the Goma region of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo erupted suddenly. A local organization, the Center for Intercultural Missions and Research led by LWCCN member Eraston Kighoma was on the scene. They have sent us a detailed report of their response. The full […]
The Lausanne/WEA Creation Care Network’s foundational document is The Jamaica Call to Action (read it here). One of the most important sections of that document is this Call to Prayer: Each of our calls to action rest on an even more urgent call to prayer, intentional and fervent, soberly aware […]
Long anticipated, Katharine’s Saving Us has finally been released along with a tidal wave of publicity. The best we’ve seen? Katharine and Jimmy Kimmel. Enjoy! If the video doesn’t play, try this link: Jimmy Kimmel Live
One of the signficant advances we have seen in the last 10 years has been the willingness of many organizations that do not specialize in creation care (there are very few of us, after all) to take up the cause. Case in point: Biologos, an organization you really should know […]