Rev’d Rich Clarkson reflects on an unusual request: Every year in one of my churches we hold a Pet Service. It’s always one of my favourite services because you just can’t predict what is going to happen. Last year the highlight was a tortoise who spent most of the outdoor …
As we journey through the season of Lent, we enter a period of lamentation. Globally, we are experiencing more frequent and severe climate-related disasters, such as floods, droughts and storms, which are disproportionately impacting those at the margins of society. A UN Refugee Agency reports climate change is a growing …
During lockdown a beautiful documentary film was released which I know many of us loved called ‘My Octopus Teacher’. In this documentary, naturalist and filmmaker Craig Foster spent nearly a year diving in a kelp forest off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. Over this year he closely followed …
Rev James Watterson reflects on Christian political and environmental engagement: Back in 2004 the electoral commission ran a TV advert to encourage an apathetic electorate to engage with the political process (the turnout at the 2001 general election had been the lowest in 80yrs). The advert featured a line drawn …
In a significant new paper Revd Dr Mark Siddall analyses the approaches of different Christian denominations to climate change. In this blog for JRI he explains his approach to the topic. The full paper is available to read and linked at the end of this blog. The beginnings of this …
David Gould has written this briefing paper as a follow up to the JRI webinar he presented with Paul Woods in July 2023 – the full paper can be downloaded from the Briefings page. According to the UN Secretary General: “our planet is broken – humanity is waging a suicidal …
