We have reported periodically on the Oikos Network – a partnership initiative to provide creation care leaders around the world with mentor- and peer-support. We are told that after a small pilot project last year, the 2022 cohorts have launched with 45 participants in 9 groups. Twenty-three countries are represented: […]
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Micah Global is an international network of Christians active in relief, development, care and advocacy. Members participate in a variety of forums and become part of country, regional, thematic and interest groups of Micah members. Most of the interaction of Micah members is digital, with occasional face to face interaction at […]
Dave Bookless has shared an excellent summary of the final conference in the LWCCN Global Campaign for Creation Care and the Gospel campaign. The report can be accessed below.
Christmas is a time of celebration, and often, to our shame, material and consumer excess. We give gifts to each other for the best of reasons, but too often those gifts are material things that our loved ones really don’t need. So it’s time to bring back A Rocha’s cute […]
There were a number of Creation Care organizations present at COP27. Most of us, however, weren’t able to attend. The following follow up summaries are available – some are reports, some are links to post-COP webinars. The Christian Climate Observers Program (CCOP) sent out daily reports; all are accessible here […]
An impressive number of Christian organizations attend the United Nations COP climate conferences each year, and many of them will be sending regular updates from COP27 so the rest of us can keep up to date with what is happening on the ground in Sharm el Sheikh, and pray intelligently […]
Photo: Christianity Today Last month we noted the ending of the Lausanne/WEA Creation Care and the Gospel Global Campaign with our final conference for the Middle East North Africa region that was held in Jordan. Christianity Today’s Middle Eastern correspondent was at the conference and interviewed Lausanne Catalyst Ed Brown […]
The eyes of much of the environmental movement were on Brazil this week as that nation faced an electoral choice with enormous consequences for the Amazon rainforest, and indeed, for the future of the world. President-elect Lula da Silva won by a tiny margin, and faces huge challenges, as we […]
The nature of the news cycle is such that a disaster last week quickly fades, and one that occurred two months ago might as well not have happened. The Pakistan floods, did happen, however, and even though almost half a million people are back in their flood-ravaged homes, at least […]
Fracking (a technique for increasing the yield of oil and gas wells) has long been controversial. It has been in the news in the UK as a backdrop to their Prime Minister turmoil – banned in 2019, unbanned by Liz Truss, and then re-banned last week by the UK’s latest […]