Fossil fuels

The evil of oil: a letter from the Interfaith Council for an Ethical Energy Policy

This is a guest post by Carl Jacobs. _______ In the name of Ecumenical comity, I have decided to give over my column this week to His Most August Personage, Phineas Tremaine Coxwalloby, Chairman of the Interfaith Council for an…

Bishop of Chester: papal encyclical 'Laudato Si' is "shrill.. naive.. unclear.. unconvincing.. exaggerated scaremongering"

July 20, 2015
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Thank God for The Rt Rev'd Dr Peter Forster, Bishop of Chester, and lay Roman Catholic Bernard Donoughue, who, together, have issued the most comprehensive ecumenical rebuttal to Laudato…

Pray and fast for climate change? Is the Church creating disciples of Christ or eco-warriors?

July 15, 2015
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The latest session of the General Synod of the Church of England drew to a close in York this week and, absent any debate about women bishops, it failed…

Laudato Si – Pope Francis gives a timely gift to humanity

June 19, 2015
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Two momentous events happened yesterday: the Vatican finally discovered PowerPoint and the Pope (or at least the person in charge of his Twitter account) proved that he had mastered…

Climate change is not simply an issue of ecology, but also of injustice

February 21, 2015
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This is a guest post by Joe Ware - Christian Aid's Church and Campaigns Journalist. _______________________ This week we witnessed a minor political miracle. Less than three months from what…