Over the last 3 years, a sizeable chunk of my working (and non-working!) life has been given over to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest Assessment Report. This comes in three parts, each produced by a separate working group. The first is all about the physical climate science and …
It was almost ten years ago when I put pen to paper and wrote ‘conflict’ and ‘compromise’ – two words that had become very meaningful to me. I was just beginning to write my Ph.D. research proposal and had to summarize the problem I wanted to work on. These two …
COP26 dominated the climate conversation in 2021 but what comes next? For churches looking to communicate on climate and environmental issues with their members and local communities, there are a host of potential challenges and opportunities. This post looks at some of the possible trends for 2022 and how churches …
In April 2021, my wife Margot and I held on online book launch for the 2nd edition of our book “A Christian Guide to Environmental Issues.” We asked several friends and colleagues to give short talks. One of these was Richard Fisher, the CEO of our publisher, Bible Reading Fellowship …
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 …
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 …
