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Pope Francis throws the weight of his office behind tackling climate change

April 15, 2015
By David Gibson
Religion News Service

NEW YORK (RNS) The Vatican is set to host a major conference on climate change this month that will feature leading researchers on global warming and an opening address by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The Church Should Lead, Not Follow on Climate Justice

April 8, 2015
By Tim DeChristopher
EcoWatch

Recently, there has been a growing discussion of climate change as a moral issue, both in academia and in religious communities. This past fall I spoke at three religion and climate change conferences in as many months, including a conference at Harvard Divinity School, “...

What the climate movement must learn from religion

April 4, 2015
By George Marshall
The Guardian

When preaching to the unconverted, activists need to offer the road to Damascus, not guilt and blame

Last September 40,000 people attended London’s largest ever climate march. This was a big achievement for an issue that struggles to catch people’s attention. After all, as psychologists point out, it is notoriously hard to...

Catholics prep for Pope Francis to tackle climate in upcoming encyclical

Will Pope Francis’ encyclical on global climate change find acceptance in his diverse flock?

By Marianne Lavelle
The Daily Climate
April 2, 2015

ARLINGTON, Va.—Dan Misleh, director of the Catholic Climate Covenant, found himself facing a skeptic recently after he outlined the coalition’s preparations for Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on global warming. 

The...

San Francisco Bay Area Refinery Corridor Healing Walks

April 2, 2015
Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN International) Blog

Forum: The Climate Change Crisis

March 2015
The Episcopal Church

The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society presents The Climate Change Crisis, a 90-minute live webcast originating from Campbell Hall Episcopal School in North Hollywood, California, in partnership with Bishop J. Jon Bruno and the Diocese of Los Angeles.

The webcast begins March 24 at 11 a.m. Pacific time (12 p.m. Mountain/1...

The Greening of Pope Francis

March 31, 2015
By Charles J. Reid, Jr.
The Huffington Post

Pope Francis is poised, within the next two or three months, to announce one of the signature documents of his papacy, an encyclical on climate change. And we can hope and pray that it will be “world-changing” in the very best sense of that expression.

Ash Wednesday Declaration bears fruit on Good Friday

March 31, 2015
Operation Noah

Twenty Anglican bishops have just released a statement entitled The World is our Host for Good Friday, which calls Churches to urgent prayer and action for climate justice and ‘sets a new agenda on climate change for the 85 million-strong Anglican Communion.’ Operation Noah welcomes this strong and...

Papal ecology: Protecting all God's creatures, respecting God's plan

March 26, 2015
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Catholic Church supports the efforts of scientists to study the causes and effects of climate change and insists governments and businesses must get serious about specific commitments for protecting the environment.

Call for Papers: Encountering Earth: Thinking Theologically with a More-Than-Human World

Encountering Earth: Thinking Theologically with a More-Than-Human World invites theologians to address how personal, autobiographical encounters with the planet and its more-than-human inhabitants provide a foundation for shaping a theology. As such, the essays within this collected volume construct theologies of a more-than-human world based on the affective encounters emerging...

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