Clmate Change and Global Warming

WYSOCS is organising a conference on Climate Change and Global Warming on Saturday 2nd December 2006. The speakers are Bob Goudzwaard and John Houghton. They will speak on 'Unmasking the ideologies obstructing global economic change' and 'Global warming: a challenge to scientists and Christians' respectively. Full details and a booking form can be obtained here.

The Bible in Transmission Autumn 2006

The Autumn issue - is it autumn already?  What happened to summer? -  of The Bible In Transmission is out; the theme is Sustainable Development.  It includes:

Jane Williams 'Theologies of the environment'
Sam Berry 'Is religion bad for the environment?'
John Houghton 'The crisis of sustainability'
Ian Hore-Lacy 'Christian stewardship and energy sustainability'
Edward Echlin 'Living sustainably locally'
John Guillebaud 'Population growth, global warming and sustainability of the environment'

Global warming adverts

Here are two adverts produced to help Americans think about climate change.

A conversation with Wendell Berry

There is an interview with the poet, essayist and novelist Wendell Berry at counterpunch.

Waking up to climate change

Jim Skillen's comments on 'Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action' are here.

John Houghton: Looking after creation

There is an interesting interview with John Houghton in this month's Christianity Today: 'Looking after creation'.

Ecological blindspots

John Jefferson Davis, author of Evangelical Ethics (P 1993, 2nd edn), has an article - available online - in JETS: 'Ecological "blind spots" in the structure and content of recent evangelical systematic theologies'.

The purpose of this paper is to argue that certain “blind spots” in the structure and content of recent evangelical systematic theologies have contributed to the neglect of environmental issues and environmental stewardship in certain segments of the evangelical subculture. More specically, it will be argued that de˜ciencies in the doctrines of creation and the atonement in evangelical systematic theology textbooks have contributed to this problem.

Environmental ethics bibliography

There is a useful and technical directory to bibliographies in environemental ethics here. It is complied by Timothy C. Weiskel - it was last upated in 1998.

More recent 92005) is the International society for Environemental Ethics Bibliography.

The Evangelical ecologist

The Evangelical Ecologist is a blog worth checking out: "A Christian ecoblog - 'cause the world isn't ours to mess up Psalm 24:1."

Why the blog? I started it because I think there's a need for a conservative evanglical voice in the environmental movement today. Clearly, though, I'm not the evangelical ecologist. All of us who desire to care for God's creation while spreading the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ are evangelical ecologists. And this site is here to help.

Ecological footprint

Take the ecological footprint quiz to see how many hectares are need for your lifestyle.

Earthkeeping

This is really the best book on ecotheology: Earthkeeping in the '90s: Stewardship of Creation (Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2nd edn, 1991) - despite being nearly fifteen years old. Sadly it is out of print. But interlibrary loans may be able to find a copy. It is an updated version of a book that was published in 1980 (though most of the research was done in 1977-78) at a time when not many Christian thinking or talking about the environment - let alone writing. It is a product of the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship.

The writers include: Loren Wilkinson, Calvin DeWitt, Peter DeVos, Eugene Dykema, Vern Ehlers, Ailen Van Genkel (nee Van Beilen) and Derek Pereboom.

Update

It looks like AuSable have copied for sale see here.

Science, Religion and Technology Project

The SRTP was set up as the result of the vision of Dr Willie Robertson in 1970. His desire was that theologians should be in touch with technologists so that "the beam of theological thinking is pointed ... where it is needed to avoid the chaos".

Under its current Director, Donald Bruce, it now has an environment page, with links to aspects of its work.

The first couple of decades of the SRT are told in the book Technology at the Crossroads: The Story of the Society, Religion and Technology Project (St Andrew Press, 1994) by Ronald Ferguson.

European Christian Environmental Network

The ECEN was first started in 1998. It aims to help the churches and Christian groups to share information, to pool common experiences and to encourage each other in being a united witness to caring for God's creation.

Eco-congregation

EcoCongregation is an ecumenical environmental toolkit with resources, support and an award scheme. It encourages churches to weave creation care into their life and mission.

The Parish Pump Programme

The Parish Pump Programme is a project of the Conservation Foundation. It is organised in association with the Public Affairs Divison of the CofE.

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The Earth is the Lord's

Perhaps the best book ever published on green theology from a Christian perspective is The Earth is the Lord's: A Message of Hope for the Environment (Regius Press, Bristol, 1990) (ISBN 18554 002 4). I should know I'm one of the authors!!!

Unfortunately, it is now out of print - however copies can be obtained from Richard Russell's Christian Studies Unit here.


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Au Sable resources

There are a number of helpful resources at the Au Sable site:

1. Biblical Principles for Respecting the Integrity of Creation

2. Caring for Creation: Awareness,Appreciation, Stewardship

3. Caring for Creation: An Introductory Bibliography

4. Loving Rembrandt. . . but Despising His Paintings

5. Seven Degradations of Creation

6. Three Biblical Principles for Environmental Stewardship

7. Who and Whose is Behemoth

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Christian Environmental Studies Center

The CESC at Montreal College is a collaborative effor between Christian environemntal organisations , academic programming andf the Christian community.

There are links to a number of papers and articles.

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John Ray Initiative

The John Ray Initiative (JRI) is an educational charity that develops and communicates a Christian understanding of the environment. Find out Who's Who in JRI, and about John Ray. Investigate our Associates programme, Briefing papers, JRI Resources and our Gateway, an annotated directory of resources.

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Christian Ecology Link

The Christian Ecology Link (formerly Group) (CEL) are a multi-denominational UK organisation for Christians concerend about the environment.

They publish the magazine Green Christian three times a year. It is edited by Chris Walton.

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Au Sable

Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies provides university-level courses with transferable credits to over 50 colleges and universities, the framework and services for sustainable community-building, environmental education and restoration for school children and adults, facilities for community and environmental organizations, community and regional conferences and retreats, and outreach services. We do this in the Great Lakes Forest of northern Michigan, Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest, north of the South Florida , East Africa, and South India.

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A Rocha

A Rocha is a Christian nature conservation organisation, the name comes from the Portuguese for "the Rock", as the first initiative was a field study centre near the Alvor Estuary in Portugal.

There is also A Rocha UK. There is a list of useful resouces and brief book reviews by the UK Director David Bookless here.

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ecotheology

Welcome to ecotheology - a blog devoted to ecotheology. I hope to put up brief book reviews, a bibliography and on-line resources and so on.