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Global heating did not cause the COVID 19 pandemic. Yet to consider the two phenomena together is worthwhile: they are a double helix of intertwined causes and results leading to a mutating new world. Such evolution is of God. We...

Amid the undoubted suffering caused by Covid, there are reasons to be positive.  Much has been written about the value and sacrifice of the NHS and all key workers, the reduction in pollution, and about the realisation that the amount...

We are hot. I have been talking publicly about global heating since 1991.  ‘Mitigation trumps adaptation’, I have said.  This means that we need to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions, not just try to adapt to increasing heat which has...

Thanks to Allen Pollards plastic collection initiatives, we have already taken action against plastic waste. Now we, as part of our vibrant Eco-congregation work, have a chance to take part in a national plastic waste scheme from May 16th to...

“You ought also to wash one anothers feet”. John13:14 In accordance with Jesus words, a group of us from the Circuit sat on the Baildon Methodist Church lawn to wash each others feet on Sunday 12th June.  We read the...

Christmas is coming.  What will we do with the wrapping paper? Throughout the country, folk try not to throw away the detritus of Christmas.  Many say “We don’t waste things in our house.  We fold up the wrapping paper to...

For Churches the call to action could not be clearer.  We should use as little plastic as possible, in catering or furnishing for example. Collecting plastics for ‘recycling’ is not sufficient.  We must always ask what happens to the “recycled”...

The old normal – and a new normal? (continued) In Matthew 6:28, Jesus exhorts us to “consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin.” The exhaustion of constant work and activity, especially in cities,...

Many Christians have done their little bit to combat global heating.  As followers of the Way, to avoid hypocrisy this is essential.  But only if we group together in a community have we much political impact.  A church can be...

The Fold @ Baildon Methodist Church, Bradford became famous because it was featured at COP 26 in Glasgow as the first building on church premises in Britain to be constructed to standards similar to those of a Passivhaus, emitting no...

One of the challenges of COVID19 is that we are encouraged not to use public transport.  Yet it is plainly the height of selfishness for us to transport one or two people in a large metal box, called a car,...

So what should we as individuals and Churches do to act in preparation for COP26? Churches can help change the national mind-set by reducing their own carbon emissions through becoming, for example, Eco-churches and using only renewable energy. We can...