connecting Environment, Science and Christianity
We are pleased to announce the publication of Climate Change, Faith and Rural Communities by Martin J. Hodson and Margot R. Hodson. This attractive 40 page booklet is a product of the Agriculture and Theology Project (ATP) which is a joint project involving JRI, the Church Mission Society (CMS) and the Agricultural Christian Fellowship (ACF). [...]
JRI Director, Margot Hodson, has just produced a Grove Booklet entitled “Uncovering Isaiah’s Environmental Ethics”. The book of Isaiah is rich in natural imagery and would seem ideally suited to provide a source for an environmental ethic; but how do we use these images, given that they were metaphors for theological ideas? This booklet uses [...]
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway This book describes how a handful of senior, highly influential scientists in the United States have worked over the past 30 or 40 years to obscure the truth on the issues of Smoking and Cancer, Acid Rain, Ozone destruction and Global Warming. The way they [...]
A new book published by the Agricultural Theology Project (ATP) is Christopher Jones, An Unsafe Distance – An examination of relations between Governments and Farmers. With contributions by Dr Dan Taylor and Rev Ivor MacDonald, and a foreword by Professor John Wibberley. “An Unsafe Distance” can be downloaded here: An Unsafe Distance Cover for An [...]
COPENHAGEN AND THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS (JRI Briefing Papers– No. 19) is a detailed analysis of where we stand after the Copenhagen climate change conference by JRI President, Sir John Houghton.
A new JRI briefing paper by Sir John Houghton links the biblical story of Joseph in Egypt and modern issues surrounding climate change. You can download Joseph, Pharaoh, and a Climate Crisis.
A new book from JRI Director, Hilary Marlow ‘Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics’ will be published in November. The flyer gives details of a special pre-publication deal. Many Congratulations to Hilary