COP25. Ring a bell? No? Well, I mentioned it in my last blog before Christmas. I know, I know. That’s an age away. Your attention might have been elsewhere – there was an election on after all. And things around churches get frantic in the run-up to Christmas, election or …
We are delighted to announce that JRI has been selected to be the Lent Charity by St Mary, Redcliffe in Bristol. We will have a display there throughout Lent and will run a number of events there during this period. More details will be available soon. Many thanks to St …
On the global scene, 2019 was another fairly depressing year. It seems likely that when all the numbers are in it will be the second warmest in the instrumental record. There have been numerous records broken, and extreme weather events seem to be becoming more regular in occurrence. The horrendous …
Astra Taylor in her Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone (London: Verso, 2019) quotes the famous saying of Antonio Gramsci about ‘pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will’ in the context of the climate catastrophe. This connects with that other saying about ‘civilisational …
At the end of November, I had the privilege of joining members of the Faraday Institute, Cambridge for a two week trip to South India. We delivered 3-day courses at three different centres: the Christian Ecumenical Centre in Bengaluru; the Church of Divine Patience (held in a hotel) in Madurai; …
As part of the Christian Climate Observers Program and as a fellow researcher of the PUCV’s Law of the Sea Centre, I have been an observer during the first week of the UN Climate Change Conference COP 25. This conference is taking place under the Presidency of the Government of …
