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JRI Webinar: Caring for Creation in Melanasia – Revd Richard Clarkson
During this webinar reference is made to The Melanasian Mission whose website can be reached through this link
12th March 2026
JRI Webinar: Treading Softly – Major Heather Poxon
Heather is the territorial environmental officer for the Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland. She was ordained as an officer in 1993, following training and experience in commercial horticulture.
At the webinar one enquirer wanted to know a little more about the Salvation Army’s mission priorities and how they fit together. Heather has provided this short leaflet which gives a little more information about this.
13th January 2026
JRI Webinar: Divine Windows – Seeing God through the lens of science: Revd Dr Dave Gregory
Dave has a doctorate in climate physics from Imperial College and worked in weather and climate research before training for Baptist Ministry. He is a former president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Convenor of the Baptist Union Environment Network as well as a former chair of JRI.
1st October 2025
JRI Webinar: A Secular Continent? Religion and Environment in the history of Antarctica – Dr Adrian Howkins
Dr Howkins is Reader in Environmental History at the University of Bristol, and a self-supporting priest in the benefice of St Mary, Cotham and St Paul, Clifton
26th September 2024
JRI Webinar: What has Christianity ever done for Environmental Ethics? – Dr Caleb Gordon
Dr Gordon is postgraduate director of studies at Lindisfarne College of Theology.
24th June 2024
Please note that the sound quality of this recording is poor and the version below does not include the Question and Answer session.
JRI Webinar: The Forest Underground – Tony Rinaudo of World Vision
23rd April 2024
JRI 25th Anniversary Webinar: Climate Change: dealing with disagreement
Dr Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Professor of Public Policy and Public Law at Texas Tech University. The webinar is introduced by Dr Mike Morecroft, President of JRI, and the question and answer time after the presentation was chaired by Revd Rich Clarkson, Chair of the Board of JRI.
Nature Based Solutions to Climate Change
Dr Mike Morecroft, President of JRI, Natural England’s Principal Specialist on Climate Change, and Co-ordinating Lead Author on ecosystems for the IPCC. 18th January 2024
Perspectives on COP28 as an Observer
Marie South of SIL International, 18th December 2023
Caring for God’s Acre
Harriet Carty, Director of Caring for God’s Acre, 12th October 2023
Those who booked for the event have access to the video file of the Zoom recording. If others would like to see this please contact JRI.
Creation Care and Mission
David Gould and Paul Woods, 29th June 2023
Sustainable Management of the Coast. Can Theology make a Difference?
Revd Les Betty, 11th May 2023
The presentation slides from this webinar (as a pdf file) can be downloaded via this link.
God at the Centre? How Theocentrism reconciles Conservation and Development
Revd Dr Ben Lowe and Dr Rachel Lamb, 13th April 2023
The article by Dr Lowe, Dr Lamb and Ruth Padilla DeBoorst can be accessed via this link.
The Land: Theology and Practice
Revd Margot Hodson and Norman Wirzba, 4th February 2023
This was a CRES course open event and the video was posted in the Member Zone of the CRES website. It contains copyright material and is therefore not publicly available, but please contact JRI administration if you wish to access.
COP27: What’s been happening and what happens next?
Reflections on COP27 with Dr Mike Morecroft and Professor Dave Griggs, 17th November 2022