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 […]
Regions and Countries: Climate Change
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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 […]
Long anticipated, Katharine’s Saving Us has finally been released along with a tidal wave of publicity. The best we’ve seen? Katharine and Jimmy Kimmel. Enjoy! If the video doesn’t play, try this link: Jimmy Kimmel Live
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 […]
The Blue Whale, largest of God’s creatures on earth today, has returned to the waters off the coast of Spain after an absence of more than 40 years. From EcoWatch: Since 2017, there have been four sightings of three different whales off the coast of Galicia in northwest Spain. The […]
Brittany (Ederer) Michalski is hosting a book club on Katharine Hayhoe’s new book, Saving Us. The club runs from September 21 through November 11, and the timing is intended for participants in the US, but night-owls in other parts of the world can certainly join in if you like. Saving […]
A Rocha International recently held an online “Festival” for their entire global family. Besides being a model of how to conduct a conference for hundreds of people over many different time zones (Congratulations, whoever pulled that off! Great job!), the Festival also featured several very high quality and important talks. […]
Several creation care organizations have partnered to lead the Christian Climate Observers Program (CCOP) at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, October 30- November 13 . CCOP is training the next generation of UN climate observers from a Christian and missional perspective before and […]
The “Group of Seven” (aka the G-7, the nations representing the world’s largest economies – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States) will be meeting next week in Cornwall, UK. Though this group has no power of its own, discussions and decisions taken can be extremely […]