We are in a climate and ecological emergency. Read on to see how Green Christian is responding.
The air company Flybe is in financial difficulties. One suggestion made on 14 January was to make a cut in the duty charged on all short haul flights in the UK.
Nine Green Christian members have written to their MPs about this in the last two days. Here are just three examples of letters that were sent:
14 Jan 2020
Dear …….
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Navigating ecological tragedy: a collaborative inquiry with Buddhists and Christians
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March 2020 at Gomde Lindholme Hall, nr Doncaster
In
partnership with Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council and Doncaster Climate
Commission
The climate crisis has
only just begun, but it confronts us with ancient questions – the ultimate
questions of faith.
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Iona SW England Gathering
Saturday 28th March 2020, 11.00am till 4.00pm. arrivals from 10.30am
At South Street Baptist Church, Exeter.
Theme: Ways, Means and Marvels: Christian Responses to the Ecological Crisis
Where:
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By Martin Davis
I used to think “Thou shallt not kill” the easiest of the 10 Commandments to obey. As a junior lawyer, to disobey would, I reflected, certainly have seen the end of my career, but I had few temptations to go about murdering people, and could for the most part resist driving dangerously.
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Paul Bodenham
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In Green Christian we think the climate and ecological emergency is probably the greatest mission challenge the churches have ever faced.
We want to create places where people can meet together for a journey through climate grief and eco-anxiety. It’s work which requires new skills, new insights and new ways with words.
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Green Christian welcomes plans by the Church of England, announced last week, to “recognise the Climate Crisis and step up its action to safeguard God’s creation.”
The charity is seriously concerned, however, by the Environmental Working Group’s proposal that General Synod should support the Government’s carbon reduction of net zero carbon by 2050.
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Hustings will take place all over the country. Please go along and ask one or more of these questions.
Question on the CLIMATE EMERGENCY
We are in a climate and ecological emergency. According to the head of the UN, we face a direct existential threat and have less than 18 months to change course.
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by Ruth Musgrave, Green Christian member
Some diary entries written in the first week of the Rebellion. Each morning we went to Bart’s hospital for radiotherapy treatment for my husband Pete’s cancer and then went on to the Rebellion.
Oct 7th:
We got to Lambeth Bridge at about 9-45am.
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