The Green Chalice by Mark Coleman

I have written this for my parish Magazine: "Viewpoint": You may have heard of the film "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore. It's very good and a number of us at St Mary's West Derby looked at it early this year before we gathered for a course on climate change called the Omega Course. The film is powerful and well worth watching. I think it's been on TV and you may well have seen it. The Church has a few copies of it on DVD if you would like to borrow it. A book has been produced too and that is well worth a look. With the same title as the film it is subtitled "The planetary emergency of global warming and what we have to do about it". When I went away on a short course the other week with some other clergy we were asked to review the book. It shows how climate change is a reality and juxtaposes facts and figures with beautiful pictures of forests and ice caps. I can lend it to anyone who is interested. One graph in the book brings the messa...

There is almost no doubt now that climate change , caused by humankind, is well underway. We are suffering because of it with more extreme weather - mostly rain storms. Others in less developed countries suffer much more, and drought is killing many millions of people each year. This blog will explore the interface between climate change and the Christian faith. What can the Bible and theology offer us ? What resources can we draw on to help us find hope and act in hope ? Like many I suspect, I wilt under this issue. It feels a bit like the 1980s when we believed that there was a possibilty of nuclear war. (there still is !) But we could blame cruise missiles on the USA and maintain a "holier than thou" sense. But I can't enjoy that sort of piety now. We are very much part of the problem. Climate change is well underway and with the various tipping point scenarios there is an increasing risk to life as we know it. But those of us who are Christians continue to believe in...