Lent 2026
Lent is a season of penance, prayer and repentance, where repentance can mean not only regret and remorse, but also a “change of mind”, a turning around to the right path. Humanity certainly needs Lent. Let us model it where we can.
Calling a Wounded Earth Home
Our main recommendation is Green Christian’s 5-week Lent Course, Calling a Wounded Earth Home. Inspired by Green Christian’s Deep Waters Course, it asks “What kind of people might we need to be to face the challenges of climate change?”
There are two versions. 1 – including links to music from the internet, and 2 – similar, but internet free, using music/songs from Taize.
Here is a space to go deeper together, and a space of contemplation that can resource meaningful action.
Other suggestions for Lent
1. Plenty!
Our own Plenty! course can be used for Lent – it is all very applicable within the thinking of the season of Lent and beyond.
2. Where your treasure is : making your money work for God’s creation.
This is a five-week course from Operation Noah, exploring how we can use our money to tackle the climate crisis. Each week contains readings, a reflection, discussion questions, a prayer and some actions that you can take. Whilst some of the suggested actions may take longer than a week to complete, we recommend you spend some time each week reflecting and sharing as a group what your experiences were with the previous week’s action. This is intended to be a very practical course to inspire positive action for the climate.
Operation Noah will also be running the course as a series of lunchtime Zoom meetings on Wednesdays in Lent, and you are welcome to join us. To join us online in Lent, click here.
3. Green Collects
Eco Congregation Scotland has a new set of Green Collects that can be used for Lent. And their new updated Creation-Inclusive Communion liturgy.
4. Carbon Literacy for Congregations
Carbon Literacy for Congregations is an accredited course written for use in small groups in churches.
You can do the course online over five Tuesday evenings during Lent, starting Tues 11th March, 6:30pm-8:30pm.
5. Creation Care: Christian Responsibility
Christine Nellist, who helps to run Pan-Orthodox Concern for Animals, says: “Please also look at the course on our website, which is themed and full of early and contemporary Christian quotes, which I am sure will be of use to you and to the parishes you will speak at. Happy for it to be modified for your audience”
6. The Whole Easter Story
BRF’s Lent Book The Whole Easter Story by Jo Swinney is being run on Zoom on Wednesday evenings in Lent by a Rocha.
and also found this resource from the US:
8. Daily Carbon Fast: Settle Methodist Church modified the Carbon Fast sheet prepared by other groups for their church. Climate Stewards offered a weekly carbon fast project last year . Links to these two will be added shortly
Campaigns
Writing in The Methodist Recorder, Green Christian member, John Anderson, says:
Traditionally we try to do fewer bad things in Lent. I think we should try to do more good things. We should not shrivel and retreat. We should gird our loins and advance …We face national and global challenges; our cosmic Christ inspires us to act world-wide in his name. By modern communications networks we can do this more effectively than any previous generation … Giving to charities is good; acting to bring about major world change is better
Go to our Climate and Creation – what can I do? web area.