This year’s John Stott Lecture will (of course) be held online. This means that many of us who are not in or able to travel to London have the opportunity to join in. And we need to, because this year’s lecture is an important one: Dr. Laura Meitzner Yoder, who […]
Categories: Announcement/Prayer
There are all kinds of technologies, from carbon capture and sequestration to artificial trees, being proposed to deal with the climate crisis. But this raises an important question: is more technology the best way to tackle a problem that has been created by technology? Our friends at A Rocha have […]
There is going to be a lot of climate news over the next two weeks as COP26 gets under way. The conference opened in Glasgow a few hours ago, and in the next couple of days will move from ceremonial speeches to hard-core negotiating. No one knows how this one […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Season of Creation is the annual Christian celebration of prayer and action for our common home. Together, the ecumenical family around the world unites to pray and protect God’s creation. The season starts 1 September (this week!), the World Day of Prayer for the Care ofCreation, and ends 4 […]
Brian Webb is teaching another FREE (yes, you read that right!) online course out of Houghton College. This one starts this week – on Wednesday, 1 September. It is scheduled each Wednesday from 7 to 9 pm Eastern Time (US) but registered participants can watch recordings in their own time […]
Micah Global’s 2021 Consultation promises to be an event unlike anything they have produced yet. Six days, four language tracks, and a theme that fits in with everything we want to promote in the Lausanne/WEA Creation Care Network: Kushamiri, Swahili for Flourish. And it’s coming soon – from Sunday to […]
Now, this is cool! Having grown up in the 1960’s, I (Ed Brown) remember the power of songs – “We Shall Overcome” (civil rights), “Blowin’ in the Wind” (anti-war). Successful movements need song – and the Christian Music community is ready to help by creating the first Christian worship album […]