A recap of Earth Day 50 with links to messages from Pope Francis, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and others #creationcare #earthday50
Monthly Archives: April 2020
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The WEA Creation Care Task Force will be hosting one of Habitat’s upcoming Urban Thinkers Campuses in two weeks. An excellent opportunity for LWCCN members who are working in cities to join with others in thinking through how Covid-19 is affecting our communities and how to respond.
Renew Our World has today released an important statement regarding humanity’s relationship with nature (God’s creation), along with a video interview with Dave Bookless.
LWCCN is releasing episodes of the Lausanne Global Classroom Creation Care series daily over the next two weeks. Here’s episode 1
In a recent interview with UK Channel 4, Jane Goodall puts her finger on the heart of our Covid-19 problem: “We have disrespected animals, and we have disrespected the environment.”
We lost a hero this week. Sir John Houghton, 88 years old, passed away in a Care facility near his home in Wales UK on 15 April. Known to the world as the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s scientific assessment group and lead editor of the […]
Our friends at Tearfund UK have done a superb job producing and translating a number of different resources for churches and individuals during this time of crisis. Here’s the resource page, and TF’s introductory comments: At Tearfund, we want to equip churches to respond biblically and holistically to the Covid-19 […]
This handout by Ruth Valerio and Gordon Heugh of Tearfund looks to be quite useful in processing what is happening in our world from a Christian perspective. Read it and if appropriate, pass it along to your church leaders and friends:
The Club of Rome recently released an Open Letter to Global Leaders in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Here is the heart of their message, with which we fully agree: Covid-19 has shown us that overnight transformational change is possible. A different world, a different economy is suddenly dawning. […]
Dave Bookless’ excellent blog on “What Virus Are You Spreading?” is going viral (haha). If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth reading. …if there’s much we can learn from the suffering and limits imposed by COVID-19, how can we virally encourage the positives? At the risk of being simplistic, the […]