Lambeth Daily - Sat - 26- July

The church will have to provide the necessary moral argument on tackling climate change, where the arguments of politics and economics have failed, the chair of the Anglican Communion Environment Network (ACEN) said today. At a press conference today Bishop of the Diocese of Canberra Goulburn George Browning said that bishops have “no option” but to take up the cause of the environment, “Not because of what the world says, but because it is inherent in our faith”.

A Biblical Reflection

In the dialogue following the healing of the man born blind, the Pharisees confront the man saying they are followers of Moses, but he is a follower of this man – Jesus, whom they claim has no pedigree.

Spouses' Conference - Quiet Garden Tour

“Water colour is like a cat, it wants to go its own way.” Ruth Councell offered this bit of whimsical, yet incisive insight while finishing off a lovely record of the country gardens surrounding her. Friday, one coach driver, one coordinator and two assistants, Lizzie and John Hopthrow, their country home and it’s heart, a small but diaconal team of servers clad in green polo shirts, Self selected Bishop’s Spouses, one interpreter, and a scribe with camera, collected as community to simply be still together.

Feature

Plenary Friday 25th July

Kay Goldsworthy, Assistant Bishop of Perth, chaired a session in which both the science and the implications for moral leadership at a time when our very existence is under threat was considered. The principal speaker, Professor Chris Rapley OBE, currently Director of the Science Museum and well known expert on climate change, outlined some of the indisputable evidence:

Lambeth Video Journal

Video Journal 5

Safeguarding Creation: The Bishop and the Environment
Ellison Pogo, Archbishop of Melanesia. Winston Halapua, Suffragan Bishop of Polynesia in New Zealand. John Chartres, Bishop of London, UK. Mark McDonald, National Indigenous Bishop, Canada. Profile: Lambeth Chaplaincy Program

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