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Did we COP out in Glasgow?

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
For Christians and indeed the whole of humanity, the United Nations Conference of Parties, COP 26, was disappointing.  We do not see the “new heaven and a new earth” of Revelation 21.1 or the “tree of life… for the healing...
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Informational and Evangelistic Tours of the Fold

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
I am leading tours of The Fold to inform and inspire commitment and action on saving the bio-diversity and beauty of Gods world. I am giving out to my neighbours publicity asking how they propose to heat their homes when...
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Priest in Ireland pens touching poem about coronavirus lockdown

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
Lockdown by Brother Richard: Yes there is fear. Yes there is isolation. Yes there is panic buying. Yes there is sickness. Yes there is even death. But, They say that in Wuhan after so many years of noise You can...
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Celebrating our care for the climate

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
Initiated by Bradford Youth, Bradford Cathedral has produced the best worship service I have yet seen on climate care. Please look at it The cathedral is an Eco-congregation, just like Baildon Methodist Church You can find it below, the worship...
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LENT ACTION 2023

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
Let us not simply stop doing something bad for Lent Let us start doing something good There can be no passive Christian.  John Wesley said, “…there is no such thing as solitary religion.  To commit yourself to Christ is to...
Eco congregation

The Duke of Edinburgh and the Arc

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
  Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, has praised the “obedient, questioning, faithfulness” of the Duke of Edinburgh.  Good questions lead to an effective diagnosis; this results in a beneficent outcome.  He had a journeying, active, faith and is said...
Eco congregation

Pandemic

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now,  on trying to make the world different than it is. ...

WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT THE INJUSTICE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
At least twenty percent of us continue to fly on holiday because we can afford it.  And yet air transport is the fastest-growing source of CO2 emissions in our country. As many of the emissions are high in the atmosphere,...

Banking Crisis

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
As Methodists we care a great deal about what happens to our money. Both Jesus Christ and John Wesley spoke about what practising Christians should do with it. Jesus says in Matthew 19:23, “It will be hard for a rich...

Will Christians cop it? (Part 1)

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
COP stands for Conference of Parties. COP 26 is the world climate change conference being arranged by the United Nations from the 1st – 12th November 2021 in Glasgow. The UN organises these conferences every five years for Heads of...
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Worldwide

Dressing-gown-ness

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
Russians know about cold.  Try Lake Baikal in January! They have a word, ‘dressing- gown-ness’ (chalatnost), which describes how they live in their country homes, fully clothed but with a dressing gown on top to keep warm.  This was normal...

The old normal – and a new normal? Part 1

14 March 2023
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John Anderson
Before COVID-19 the old normal was characterised by greed, inequity, exhaustion, consumption and disconnection.  Such is the shock to received opinion that a new normal has been developing: generosity, equity, quietude, conservation and connection. This is the Way of Christ....