The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has received an award from UK parliamentarians for his work in helping to promote ecologically friendly causes – including a Church of England carbon-cutting campaign.
The Episcopal Church will launch a multifaith campaign on climate change. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will invite Christians, Jews and Muslims to commit to reducing the carbon footprint of churches, temples and mosques by 50 % by 2015.
Citing the need for immediate attention to serious issues of global warming, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will represent the National Council of Churches at a Congressional hearing on global warming on Thursday. The Presiding Bishop, who holds a doctorate in oceanography, approaches the issue of climate change from both scientific and theological perspectives.
The G8 nations are meeting in a few weeks. Climate change, extreme poverty and the potential of the Millennium Development Goals to make a difference
Before I became a priest, I was a professor of oceanography. One of
the things I learned was that oceanographers couldn’t just study
squid or fish in isolation. We had to study interconnected systems.
We had to understand not only the animals’ environment, such as the
water, but its chemistry and circulation, the atmosphere above the
ocean and the geology below it. And that, I believe, is how we must
understand our world: We must see everything, and everyone, as
interconnected and intended by God to live in relationship.
Two of the most significant crises facing our world — climate change
and deadly poverty — offer an example of such interconnectedness.
Jesus came from farming country in the northern part of Palestine. The land is fertile and crops grow well there. I remember sitting on a
“The Easter promise is that God can bring life out of this threatening death. The God who raised Jesus from the dead can raise us from something less than life—our driven, wasteful lives—to life itself, a life that is simpler, more connected to the Great Economy of nature, more rooted in its place, and more committed to renewing and caring for this vulnerable nest, this fragile earth.” said the Very Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III during his Easter III sermon, April 22, 2007—Earth Day. “”The Spirit is moving in our world now to renew the face of the earth.”
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has endorsed a booklet published today that encourages Christians to play their part in helping to stop climate