August 2014
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One month ahead of the 2014 Climate Summit, CPJ wrote to Prime Minster Stephen Harper asking him to attend the summit and present new ideas that will effectively tackle climate change, such as promised regulations on the oil and gas sector or Canada’s contribution of $400 million annually to the UN’s Green Climate Fund.
By enacting strict GHG emissions standards across the entire oil and gas sector, our federal government can both fulfill its promises and care for the environment.
Originally published in Canada Lutheran – July/August 2014 How do we restore our covenantal relationship with God and creation? This was the question put to a gathering of parishioners in the fellowship hall at St. Peter’s Lutheran, Ottawa, on a Sunday morning late in February. Seminarian (and St. Peter’s intern) JoAnne Lam had just preached…
“We need to … reflect on ‘our daily bread,’ given to us each day, and think about our relationship, not only with food, but with each other, with creation, and with the Creator.” – Wayne Groot, Living Ecological Justice, p. 33. Eating locally and knowing where our food originates is one of the ways Wayne…
How the World’s Religions Are Responding to Climate Change
Edited by Robin Globus Veldman, Andrew Szasz, and Randolph Haluza- DeLay
Routledge, 2013
Reviewed by Ben Pasha
The issue of climate change has been a significant subject of alarm for many individuals. This has typically been a concern for those involved in the physical sciences. However, climate change has now grabbed the attention of different faith communities as well, due to the role ecological issues play in societal challenges like poverty and health care.
Jesus’ instruction to turn the other cheek is a challenge to resist systems of domination and oppression without the use of violence.
This article originally appeared in Christian Courier in print and at www.christiancourier.ca. Desmond Tutu is certainly no stranger to the pursuit of justice. The South African Anglican Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Laureate was in Canada in early June at the invitation of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. Best known for his part in the anti-apartheid…
June 2014
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CPJ signed on to a letter supporting the inclusion of climate change in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
When a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? We might do well to ask, “when a glacier collapses into the sea, does anybody care?” Perhaps not as poetic, but certainly a question that requires an answer. The urgency of the global environmental crisis isn’t new. Climate scientists have been studying the issue for…
“Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel; for the Lord has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, and no knowledge of God in the land. Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed. Therefore the land mourns, and all…