In this Living Reconciliation video, the Revd Margot Hodson, vicar of the Haddenahm Benefice in Buckinghamshire, UK, referring to Paul's letter to the Colossians, speaks about the responsibility of all Christians to care for the Earth as God's creation.
Mrs Hodson was meeting with other Christians at the conference “Reconciling a Wounded Planet” held at Coventry Cathedral 18-19 September 2015 to consider stories of hope in the face of the growing global environmental crisis.
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Thursday, 24 September 2015
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Climate Change and Reconciliation Theology
Anglicans mobilise for climate change,
seek common reconciliation theology
Posted on: September 22, 2015 11:18 AM
Photo Credit: ACNS/Ilona Sābera
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Participants from various Church
of England dioceses, ecologists, political campaigners, educators and
technology experts gathered at the conference, “Reconciling a Wounded Planet” on 18-19 September in Coventryto coordinate responses to environmental crisis and develop a common theology.
Participants recognized the Church as a “trusted convener” for
facilitating theologically grounded action on climate change. Various
discussion groups tackled political and community engagement, health,
education, technology, natural resources and biodiversity topics.
Speaking at the political engagement session, Ben Niblett, Tearfund
campaigns team leader, proposed ways of mobilising the Church community
in order to convince policy makers to include climate change in their
agenda. “The Church is a home of values, a place of social capital. A
group of people that come together to prepare and act. Massive changes
can happen – you need to prepare to grab the opportunities,” he said.
One of the main issues raised by the speakers was a need to break
through fear to address the environmental crisis and “normalise” its
discourse. “We need people’s values to change first, so the policies can
change,” said Richard Gower, director of Foresight Economics
consultancy firm, speaking about the reasons some popular movements
succeed in shaping public opinion and achieving systemic change.
In light of the recent fossil fuel divestment decision by the Church
of England, Gower said every Christian should understand “it is just not
acceptable for your pension fund to be in fossil fuels.”
Participants also acknowledged the role of financial systems and
global trade in the current climate crisis, while pointing out climate
change should not be considered “a leftist issue” as it affects
everyone.
Sir Ghillean Prance, professor of botanics and conference keynote speaker encouraged Christians to lobby at UN Climate Change conference taking place in Paris in December: “If we truly want to reconcile, we need to expand. Let's be a voice in Paris!”
A variety of dispersed local initiatives, lack of coordinated action
and a theological imperative was pointed out by several speakers.
“Creation care is not a good thing – it's our mandate from the God. It
is an integrated God's mission in reconciling all things. It is not
about equipping theologically, but challenging theologically. This is
God's will for us,” said Sam Berry, professor of genetics and former
Church of England General Synod member.
The Revd Margot Hodson, vicar of the Haddenahm Benefice in
Buckinghamshire, referring to the Paul's letter to the Colossians, spoke
about the responsibility of all Christians to care for the Earth as
God's creation: “Often we say we are the body of Christ and yet we don't
think about it. […] God holds the creation as a father holds a wounded
child. Christ is the head of the Church and we are his body. Surely in
some way we are holding it too and that's why it hurts.”
Tweets from the “Reconciling a Wounded Planet” conference are available at the Anglican Communion reconciliation initiative @LiveReconcile.
Visit the Living Reconciliation website for bible studies and reconciliation stories from around the Anglican Communion.
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Monday, 6 July 2015
Ted Lovett at St Paul's : a footy great tells us stories of Lake Condah, harsh treatment, life achievements and eels
Ted Lovett at the pulpit at Saint Paul's, Bakery Hill, Ballarat
with The Chair of Advocacy @ St Paul's,
Yesterday at St Paul's, we celebrated NAIDOC Week by having as our guest Aboriginal Elder Ted Lovett. (For further NAIDOC week events in #Ballarat, please see the program embedded below.)Ted, now in his seventies, is a Gundjit-Mara man from south-west Victoria - down closer to the Victorian-South Australia border. Ted said he hadn't been in an Anglican church in a very long time. He was raised on Lake Condah mission - a mission run by the Anglican church. He grew up in the very harsh conditions that modern Anglicans remember in shame. This land was regained and taken back by the Gundjit-Mara under native title. The story of The Gunditjmara Land Justice story is embedded below.
The Budj Bim landscape in southwest Victoria is a traditional homeland of the Gunditjmara people, and is on Australia’s National Heritage List as well as in the process of being nominated for the World Heritage List. The area in and around Mount Eccles National Park has great cultural and historical significance to the Gunditjmara people, with evidence existing that their people once had a settled aquaculture society and engineered the stony wetlands around Lake Condah and Darlots Creek. To read of the restoration of the wetlands around Lake Condah please go here.
This partnership is designed as a way of continuing the traditional land ownership strategies practiced by that society, as well as their contemporary techniques, as part of a broader view that Indigenous communities have the potential to provide new and unique viewpoints on land management. Read more here.
Uncle Ted spoke of the regeneration of the water and the lake. I think that Uncle Ted had us in the palms of his hands as he spoke of these things. At Cuppa Time after the service, he was warmly greeted ... and a few of us are thinking that we would like to see this country too. And stories of the eels got our attention as well.
If readers would like to join us, should we finish up with a plan to go to Lake Condah, please be in touch with Advocacy at our email address in the side bar.
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Release of the Report and Recommendations: ASEAN and the Prevention of Violence Against Women
Picture below is from this site
In time for The Responsibility to Protect at 10: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities in the Asia Pacific Conference (26-27 February, Phnom Penh, Cambodia), the Report and Recommendations of the workshop on ASEAN and the Prevention of Violence Against Women in Conflict and Humanitarian Situations has been released. Hosted by Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect with the support of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on 20 August 2014 in Jakarta, Indonesia, the event was attended by 48 leaders from the government sector, nongovernment organizations and international organizations from Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Brunei, Thailand, Singapore and Viet Nam.
Acting British Ambassador to Indonesia, ASEAN and Timor Leste, Rebecca Razavi, delivered the keynote address on the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative. This report highlights the key themes discussed at the workshop and recommendations put forward by participants to augment regional efforts to prevent violence against women in conflict and humanitarian situations.
Key recommendations:
1. Strengthen the case for engagement with UN Security Council 1325 (2000) Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the ASEAN Political Security Community.
a. In particular, promote WPS engagement within two ASEAN institutions strongly associated with the Political Security Community – the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and ASEAN
Institute of Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR).
b. Continue to promote the complementarity of the WPS agenda in meeting the prevention of violence against women agenda in the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting for Women (AMMW) and the ASEAN Commission for Women and Children (ACWC).
Institute of Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR).
b. Continue to promote the complementarity of the WPS agenda in meeting the prevention of violence against women agenda in the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting for Women (AMMW) and the ASEAN Commission for Women and Children (ACWC).
2. Further consideration of how to engage the security sector in the prevention of sexual violence in conflict and humanitarian situations.
3. Facilitate peer-to-peer knowledge exchange on the value of WPS National Action Plans (NAPs) in building capacity to prevent violence against women and empowering women in peace and security institutions, particularly gender inclusion and mainstreaming in the judicial and security sectors.
4. Facilitate WPS awareness raising, advocacy and networking as part of R2P exchange in the region.
5. Conduct research, particularly monitoring and evaluation of national level performance, to help inform policy interventions aimed at implementing WPS at national and regional level.
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