Here’s another Earth Day opportunity: InterFaith Power and Light is offering a free kit of materials for congregations to use in celebrating Earth Day. Some of these materials will be North America specific, but others might find useful ideas here*. Faith Climate Action Week is Interfaith Power & Light’s annual […]
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Last week we announced Creation at the Crossroads 2.0 – Sharing Our Stories. This online consultation presented as a partnership between The University of Wisconsin’s Loka Initiative, Care of Creation, A Rocha and the Lausanne/WEA Creation Care Network will be held 25-27 May. Read the announcement here.
Dave Bookless has reviewed this compilation of stories from around the world, edited by Hannah Malcom. ‘Words for a Dying World’ is a must-read but not a comfortable one. It’s voices are highly diverse yet disturbingly consistent, articulating the agony of places and peoples, and wrestling to integrate Christian grief […]
Christian Relief and Development Advocacy, the new Journal of the Accord Network, has several excellent articles in their newest issue, including this one written by three brilliant friends of the Creation Care network, Ben Lowe, Rachel Lamb, and Ruth Padilla DeBorst:
As the human community expands across the globe, more and more communities find themselves in conflict with the animals that used to live where people have taken over. From elephants in India and Africa to wolves in the US, such conflict is economically damaging for people and often deadly for […]
Biologos is becoming one of our go-to sites for solid scientific *and* biblical resources. These two articles showed up recently and are worth your time: End Times and the Environment: Steven Bouma-Prediger from Hope College tackles the perennial dilemma confronting evangelical Christians: what to do (or think) when traditional interpretations […]
There are good things happening at Houghton College, a small Christian college in New York state that is doing big things with creation care. In 2015 they installed what was then the largest solar system of any college in New York State (3.1 million kilowatt hours). This year they introduced […]
The Creation Care movement is starting to speed up in Eastern Europe through the efforts of the Hodos Institute and others in the region. Dr. Alexander Negrov has organized an international online seminar primarily for Russian speakers on 20 February 2021 from 18:00 to 21:00 Kyiv time (16:00-19:00 UTC) on […]
Eco Church is a wildly successful program engaging Christians at the congregational level in practical creation care activity. The original UK program, run by A Rocha UK, now has more than 3,000 congregations in England and Wales. New Zealand has just announced their own version of Eco Church – read […]
It’s a question that church and ministry leaders have been asking for years: Is Creation Care important or essential? Is this something all of us need to be involved in, or just a few specialists, with the rest of us cheering them on? Our friends at Global Connections (UK), Climate […]