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Tools for diocesan officers

Faith Moves Mountains is part of the Church of England’s Shrinking the Footprint campaign. Launched in 2006, this national campaign aims to reduce the Church’s carbon footptrint by 80 per cent by 2050.

The Shrinking the Footprint website contains a host of valuable and up-to-date resources for use at a parish and diocesan level. This material includes helpful and easy-to-use toolkits designed to assist your Church to cut its carbon footprint. For further information on these resources please click here.

The Shrinking the Footprint website also includes sermon ideas and extensive Bible study notes drawing on ancient theolgical themes which aim to reconnect the Church to the natural world and the roots of its faith. This information aims to inspire priests to make churches beacons in their community, offering case studies linked to the Church’s year. For further information please click here.

Ecumenical Resources

Additional sermon ideas and Bible study notes can be found on the Creation Time section of the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland’s website. Creation Time is an ecumenical initiative that runs until 4 October and is designed as an opportunity for Christains to put the environment at the heart of their worship.For further information on Creation Time please click here.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken repeatedly and consistently on the moral challenges posed by climate change. The Archbishop’s belief in the need for each of us to be better stewards of God’s creation is reflected in his many public statements about the environment, collected here.

 
More tools 

The tools below are drawn from the spectrum of opinions about climate change and are not official policy of the Church of England nor Tearfund.

 

 

Christian resources, organisations and bodies 

Resources from the Church of England

The Church of England’s Shrinking the Footprint website contains a host of valuable and up-to-date resources for use at a parish and diocesan level. This material includes helpful and easy-to-use toolkits designed to assist your Church to cut its carbon footprint. It also includes sermon ideas and extensive Bible study notes drawing on ancient theological themes which aim to reconnect the Church to the natural world and the roots of its faith. This information aims to inspire priests to make churches beacons in their community, offering case studies linked to the Church’s year. 

www.shrinkingthefootprint.cofe.anglican.org

 

The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken repeatedly and consistently on the moral challenges posed by climate change. The Archbishop’s belief in the need for each of us to be better stewards of God’s creation is reflected in his many public statements about the environment.

www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/108

 

Christian Organisations and bodies

The number of Christian organisations and bodies involved in climate change has expanded rapidly in recent years. Some like A Rocha have conservation as their primary remit, while others like Eco-Congregation provide helpful resources on how Christians can make the link between environmental issues and Christian faith. Then there is the range of relief and development agencies like Tearfund and that explore the relationship between climate change and development :

www.arocha.org/int-en/index.html

www.arocha.org/int-en/index.html

www.tearfund.org

 

In terms of resources, however, Operation Noah’s website is particularly helpful in providing a wealth of resources to help you whether that is in the form of notes on the latest science, religious briefings, articles and speeches, to ideas for sermons, video blogs and plays for children.

www.operationnoah.org

 

At a more generic there is Ecclesia, a web based think tank, which examines the role of religion in public life and advocates transformative theological ideas and solutions.  It is a helpful source for policy ideas and news briefing on a range of contemporary issues related to religion and politic. It has a number of policy pages including one on ecology and the environment and another on globalisation and development. Although not particularly specialised they do provide a useful way of keeping in touch on church opinion and thinking on climate change and development.

www.ekklesia.co.uk

 

Recommended further reading

 

The mountain of research and policy papers on climate change and its impact on the developing world grows by the day and which are bets accessed through internet searches. This website only refers you to those resources produced by the sponsors of Faith Moves Mountains and only then to those that are considered most relevant and helpful.

 

They are split into two tier.

 

The first tier contains the most recent reports and those which provide a good overview of some of the issues related to climate change.

 

The second tier contains the most detailed and technical report.

 

 

 

 


This page was last updated on 24 June 2010

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