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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...

What is the origin of the rainbow as a symbol for Christians? In Genesis 9:13 God said “I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth”. God’s...

Big sins have been mentioned in our ‘Wider Worship’ Group which is at present meeting to consider how we may develop our Sunday morning worship after lockdown. What is a big sin and why are we discussing it? We sometimes...

“There are too many people”. This is said to justify opposition to immigration or in despair in the age of global warming. In the last 60 years the number of people on earth has doubled to 7.6 billion:  the world...

The root cause of the problem of overpopulation is overconsumption. Mark Twain wrote, “Civilisation is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries”. Jesus Christ never said he came to make us financially better off generation by generation; he said he came...

National Tearfund have commended us for what we are doing on climate change and asked us to upload the following blog so that they may direct other Churches to it. The climate on climate change is hotting up! What are...

Written by Ed. Louk A Adrianos and Tom S Tomren, this major work is the most all-embracing and compelling study of eco-theology that I have read.  It repays – and needs – careful reading.  I strongly recommend it. It is...

“Shalom” means “integral wholeness”. This should be a slogan for the climate change movement. For it means everything is connected: the peace and well-being of shalom lead to a single world order under one Creator God. All creation is interwoven...

Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:26, “Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them.” There is a nice balance in nature.  Yet humankind has been taught...

The glory of Autumn is upon us.  As the days shorten, leaves turn red and gold because of the lessening light. Leaves are inspiring. The sublime use of their beauty in the carvings of Southwell Minster Chapter House is now...

Taxation is the price we pay for civilisation.  Without taxes, we would have no medicine free at the point of use, no police and no state schools.  I have lived for five years in Sierra Leone and Ethiopia where millions...

Review of Steve Aisthorpe’s ‘Rewilding the Church’ This is the most interesting book I have read which connects global heating with the need for change in the Church.  Aisthorpe uses the rewilding trope as a metaphor for how followers of...