In collaboration with Christians in Science and the Faraday Institute, JRI has a small stand at the COP26 Green Zone on November 9th 2021. The JRI Chair, Revd Dr Dave Gregory put together a five minute video illustrating the work of JRI. The two CRES graduates featured are Hannah Gray …
Happy New Year! The New Year is always a time for taking stock of things, and this will be my attempt to do that from my personal angle within JRI. What I write is not “official” JRI policy, but here goes! JRI was founded in 1998, and will reach its …
JRI is pleased to announce the publication of Briefing Paper number 45, “Exploitation of the Earth, Exploitation of People” by Revd Dr John Weaver, Vice-Chair of JRI. This paper is an extract from John’s chapter of the same title in Dan Pratt (editor), Slavery-Free Communities. Emerging Theologies and Faith Responses …
As Christians we are blessed with many things, including a library of books to guide us. We call it the Bible and it contains history, poetry, law, prophecy, apocalyptic writings, letters and philosophy and wisdom literature. All there to help us understand God, and the world and our place and …
Andy Clark works for SIL and recently enrolled on the CRES Course. When we heard that he was attending COP26 with the Christian Climate Observers Program (CCOP) we asked if he could write us a report. Conveniently, Andy attended COP26 for the second week, while Dan Button’s recent blogs concerned …
This is the second part of Andy Clark’s reflections on COP26. The first part is here. The Glasgow Pact contained many things and if you want a thorough analysis as the basis for a response Andy would recommend Carbon Brief’s analysis of Key Outcomes. Without going into the detailed implications …
So COP26 has been and gone. I’ve worked on climate change since before COP1, but this was my first experience of a COP; I was there for there for more than half of it, which was exhilarating and overwhelming, inspiring and challenging. The result was complex and needs some unpacking. …
