Christian Climate Action is a group of people coming together in order to take non-violent direct action against the climate emergency. We each endeavour to prayerfully discern what action we feel called to take in each moment. Being part of Christian Climate Action is not about always agreeing with each other, but deciding to disagree … Continue reading Rebelling in covid-times
On the 7th July, Christian Climate Action, alongside HeartEdge and Young Christian Climate Network hosted an event called Climate and Colour. The event reflected on white privilege, a history of institutionalised racism in the church and the racial lens through which we view climate change, feel grief and plan action. It invited people to journey … Continue reading Climate and Colour event recording
Everything we do in CCA is underpinned by prayer. Sometimes this is face to face, sometimes online. Melanie Nazareth shares below her suggestions, from her experience of running daily prayer sessions: Choose a platform that you are comfortable with. I used Zoom ( https://zoom.us ) because as part of XRUK this was most familiar to … Continue reading How to run an online prayer session
Hannah Malcolm on pandemics, and making peace with the earth Originally posted here on SCM Press *** I’ve taken to standing under a blossoming tree on the terrace next to mine. On sunny days, it is perfumed and beautiful, and the delicate hum of bees fills my ears. The bees don’t seem disturbed by my … Continue reading Humans aren’t a virus, actually
We find ourselves today facing a double crisis. Just as declarations of climate emergency rang out across the world, this COVID-19 pandemic has taken us all by storm. And what is clear again from the news on our television screens is that the most vulnerable are the worse affected. We are all coming to terms … Continue reading We need a Green Economic Stimulus
On the 16th March we had our first online Christian Climate Action gathering in the coronavirus era and we spent the first half of the meeting exploring how to look after ourselves in this difficult time. Here are some of the tips which were shared by mental health practitioner Holly-Anna Petersen. We need to be … Continue reading Taking care of ourselves in isolation
My name is Scout Cook-Collins. I'm almost 13 years old and live in a small town in Lincolnshire, England. I am an ordinary child attending an ordinary school. My parents were Methodist Mission partners, so I have lived in Central America for nearly 4 years, but I have settled back down in England again. When … Continue reading Rallying cry from Scout, the 13 y/o school striker
Jeremy Brown writes: At the end of last year I studied a module in Social Movement Theory, which gave me a unique opportunity to write about my experiences within Christian Climate Action over 2019. The essay title was about the role of religion in movements that identify as religious. This blog is a summary of … Continue reading Is Christian Climate Action motivated by religion? Or is there something deeper?
Michael Shaw, pastor of Devonport Baptist Church, writes about a commonly heard objection: I attended the February Fridays for Future March, along with 1,000 others from Plymouth and Devon XR. As we stood outside Barclays Bank calling for a radical change in their investment policy, an older man and his wife reacted to our protest … Continue reading I just want to get on with my life!
On the 12th February the Church of England synod voted to set its net zero emissions target at 2030. The date was proposed by Canon Professor Martin Gainsborough (Bristol), in an amendment that brought the target forward fifteen years earlier than the initially recommended date of 2045. The Christians of Extinction Rebellion, known as Christian … Continue reading Christians of XR respond to Church of England’s 2030 net zero target
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