Environment and creation care have long been on the agenda for scientists, journalists like Bill McKibben, the occasional theologian, and activists – many, many activists! We have long believed, however, that some of our most important allies in this cause would turn out to be our sisters and brothers in […]
Regions and Countries: Climate Change
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We’ve been talking about the new album of climate worship songs for several months now. The wait is finally over – the album officially “dropped” yesterday, and is now available at Climate Vigil or wherever you get your music. The album has 14 songs that are designed to be used […]
This is something we’ve been anticipating for almost a year: the release of Climate Vigil Songs, a new, original album of worship songs created for the Christian climate change movement. It’s coming officially on June 3rd, but you can have a preview now: Climate Vigil Songs is a major new Christian worship […]
The John Ray Initiative in the UK has produced an excellent series of Briefing Papers over the years. The latest, #47 by Robert White, should be of particular interest to creation care practitioners: So-called ‘natural disasters’ such as floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions affect huge numbers of people every year. […]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report two days ago. For those of us who follow this topic closely there was not a lot new. But the message is getting louder and the underlying theme of all of the IPCC reports is clear: time is running out, […]
Here’s an invitation from Climate Intercessors to join them in prayer for the climate crisis. Prayer times are being held over Zoom and three times each scheduled day in order to accomodate different time zones. The next event will be February 8 as follows: Join our global zoom prayer meetings onTuesday, […]
We know that The Pollinator is a global newsletter, and we try not to spend too much time on topics having to do with the US. On the other hand, we also know that the US is not only one of the major contributors to global problems like climate change, […]
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 […]
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 […]