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Prayer – Psalm 4 – updated for consumerism and climate change
Prayers based on Psalms, with “the enemy” being climate change or “the powers that be” that are causing it – …more
Living Planet: Jesus and Advent
Barbara Echlin writes: One of my favourite modern wooden statues is in a nearby local park. It portrays a butterfly, …more
Green Christian Magazine, Autumn 2018, Issue 86
Back to latest Green Christian Magazine. Green Christian, Autumn 2018, Issue 86 Righteous joy, reverent hope Editorial: Leaping like calves at …more
New Book Reviews: October 2018
New Book Reviews on Green Christian’s Website in October 2018: Radical Prayers on Peace, Love and Nonviolence, by John Dear, November 2017. …more
Season of Creation – a short article for a parish magazine
Never heard of Season of Creation? Barbara Echlin explains: Download this article in the form of a poster to put up …more
Out of the Wreckage – Review
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis, by George Monbiot, September 2017. Verso, ISBN: 9781786632883 (paperback), 224 pages. RRP 9.99 …more
Mere Science and Christian Faith – Review
Mere Science and Christian Faith, by Greg Cootsona, IVP Books, Illinois, 2018. ISBN 978-0-8308-3814-1 (print), ISBN 978-0-8308-8741-5 (digital) The interface between Christian Faith and Science is …more
Nothing More and Nothing Less – Review
Nothing More and Nothing Less: A Lent course based on the film I, Daniel Blake, by Virginia Moffatt, November 2017. Darton, Longman …more
ReWild – Review
ReWild: The Art of Returning to Nature, by Nick Baker, June 2017. Aurum Press, ISBN 978-1781316559, 304 pages. RRP £16.99 (hardback) Nick Baker, an …more
Just Food? – Review
Just Food? Food and Farming for a Sustainable Future, edited by Barbara Butler, Spring 2018. Christians Aware, ISBN 978 0 9955 5428 6 0, 229 …more
Feast or Famine – Review
Feast or Famine: How the Gospel Challenges Austerity – an Ekklesia Lent Course for Groups and Individuals, edited by Simon …more
They Will Inherit the Earth – Review
They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change, by John Dear, March 2018. Orbis Books, ISBN: 978-1626982642, 176 pages. RRP …more
Radical Prayers – Review
Radical Prayers on Peace, Love and Nonviolence, by John Dear, November 2017. Pace e Bene Press, ISBN: 978-0997833713, 148 pages. Price approximately 12.99 (paperback) …more
New book by David Atkinson: Hope Rediscovered
Bishop David Atkinson wrote the book in 2008 “Renewing the Face of the Earth – A theological and pastoral response …more
Change Greed to Green – Short play in verse
Suitable for Service on Climate Change, The Environment etc. by Tom Hiscock. Written in 2008 but just as relevant 10 …more
Linescapes: Remapping and Reconnecting Britain’s Fragmented Wildlife, by Hugh Warwick – Review
Linescapes: Remapping and Reconnecting Britain’s Fragmented Wildlife, by Hugh Warwick, May 2017. Square Peg, ISBN 9780224100892, 264 pages. RRP £17.99 (hardback) There is no …more
Green Christian Magazine, Summer 2018, Issue 85
Back to latest Green Christian Magazine. Green Christian, Summer 2018, Issue 85 Lament, Wonder and Hope Editorial: A magnificent journey Language …more
Days of Awe and Wonder – Review
Days of Awe and Wonder: How To Be A Christian In The Twenty-First Century, by Marcus Borg, July 2017. SPCK, ISBN 978-0281078257, 256 pages. RRP …more
Joy in Enough – Reviews
Revd Peter Grimwood, (a trustee of Green Christian) writes:- Some recent reading for Joy in Enough Here are four titles …more
Does the Church know about Species Extinctions?
Judith Allinson writes: Has your church recently been doing anything to save any threatened species from extinction? Please let us …more
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature – Review
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature, by Cameron La Follette and Chris Maser, May 2017. CRC Press, ISBN 978-1-4987-8644-1, 434 pages. RRP $189.95 [hardback] Kindle …more
Reclaiming the Common Good – Review
Reclaiming the Common Good: How Christians Can Help Rebuild our Broken World, Edited by Virginia Moffat, August 2017. Darton, Longman and Todd …more
Oak and Ash and Thorn – Review
Oak and Ash and Thorn: The Ancient Woods and New Forests of Britain, by Peter Fiennes, September 2017. Oneworld Publications, ISBN 978-1-78607-166-8, 291 pages. RRP: …more
The Seven Rs
For the “Seven-Rs” leafletto print out and put on your church notice boardclick here Louise Cook writes: From childhood I …more
Show the Love Moment
Written by Barbara Echlin “These tiny ants have proceeded from His thought just as much as I. It caused Him …more
Cuppa coffee anyone?
This article first appeared in April 2016. This week (Jan 2018) Deborah was interviewed by Premiere Radio on the topic …more
Recycling in church
Do you have recycling bins in church? Even if you do, do you find strange things in them? Like plastic …more
… one lightbulb at a time?
Written by Barbara Echlin If we are told that we can bring climate change to a halt by changing the lightbulbs …more
Using your LOAF this Christmas!
Written by Barbara Echlin Celebration and food go together… At Christmas, we celebrate the birth of a baby in whom God …more
Don’t Even Think About It – Review
Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, by George Marshall, October 2015. Bloomsbury, USA, ISBN 978-1632861023, 272 …more
Citizen’s Basic Income – Review
Citizen’s Basic Income: A Christian Social Policy, by Malcolm Torry, September 2016. Darton,Longman & Todd, ISBN 978-0232532609, 170 pages. RRP £9.99 (paperback) It is …more
Doughnut Economics – Review
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, by Kate Raworth, April 2017. Random House, ISBN 978-1847941374, 384 pages. RRP £20.00 (hardback). Also available …more
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist – Review
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist, by Paul Kingsnorth, March 2017. Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0571329694, 304 pages. RRP £14 99 (paperback) This book explores an …more
Re-enchanting the Activist – Review
Re-enchanting the Activist: Spirituality and Social Change, by Keith Hebden, November 2016. Jessica Kingsley, 176 pages, ISBN 1785920413. RRP £8.99 (paperback) “So much trouble in …more
The Divine Dance – Review
The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation, by Richard Rohr with Mike Morrell, November 2016. SPCK, ISBN 978-0-28-107815-8, 220 pages. RRP £9.99 (paperback) In …more
Green Christian Magazine, Autumn 2017, Issue 84
Back to latest Green Christian Magazine. Green Christian, Autumn 2017, Issue 84 Treasuring the Earth Editorial: Where is your treasure? Divestment …more
Reclaiming the common good – book launch and reviews
One of the visitors at our Greenbelt stall was Virginia Moffatt who told us about the book “Reclaiming the Common …more
Plastic Reductions – Article for Parish Magazines
Barbara Echlin writes: Some items are made up of different materials such as the pringles package. Some items are easily …more
Environment Songs Workshop at Settle Folk Gathering
Judith Allinson describes:- Do you enjoy singing and music? Do you enjoy being in nature and are you concerned about …more
Frank Regan’s talk for Cheltenham Green Christian Group – “Do this in remembrance of me”
Martin Davis records the meeting on 6 September of Cheltenham Green Christian group. Writer and theologian Frank Regan’s return visit …more
Help pollinators in Ipswich, Leeds, Bristol and Leicester
Church of England and Buglife – helping develop a network of wildflower-rich areas for our native pollinators Background Buglife and the Church …more
Churches support Rainforest Fund
Hey, are you concerned about the following? “Development” is in most countries is drastically – reducing our wildlife stock? Over half …more
Green Christian Magazine, Summer 2017, Issue 83
Back to latest Green Christian Magazine. Green Christian, Summer 2017, Issue 83 Valuing the Earth Editorial: Valuing the Earth Laudato Si’, Ecology …more
Nonviolent Lives – Review
Nonviolent Lives: People and Movements Changing the World Through the Power of Active Nonviolence, by Ken Butigan, November 2016. Pace e …more
Rise Up with Wings like Eagles – Review
Rise Up with Wings like Eagles, by Chris Sunderland, December 2016. Earth Books, 220 pages, ISBN 978 1 78535 464 9. RRP £14.99 (paperback) …more
The Nature of Environmental Stewardship – Review
The Nature of Environmental Stewardship, by Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, December 2016. Lutterworth Press, 326 pages, ISBN 9780718894672. RRP £24.95 (paperback) In recent decades …more
Grounded – Review
Grounded, by Diana Butler Bass, October 2015. HarperCollins, 304 pages, ISBN 9780062328540. RRP £13.99 (hardback) This splendid book could be described as slow theology, to …more
Active Hope – Review
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, April 2012. New World …more