Posted On : August 13, 2008 2:16 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
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Caring for the environment 'a moral imperative,' says bishop
Climate change affecting 'the poorest of the poor'
Anglican bishops gathered here for the Lambeth Conference are preparing a statement expressing their concern for the devastating effects of climate change which they say are affecting the world's poorest countries the most and urging churches to advocate for the environment as a moral imperative.
Churches have "no option" but to care for "God's environment" because "this is our core business theologically," Bishop George Browning, of the diocese of Canberra and Goulburn told a press conference.
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Posted On : August 13, 2008 2:10 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
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Safeguarding the Integrity of Creation
A Statement from concerned Bishops at the Lambeth Conference August 2008
Genesis 1:27, 28. So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
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Posted On : July 26, 2008 2:20 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
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Given the Ecological Crisis, what is the role of the church?
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: the earth is a complex object with no manual, no spares and is finite. Its currently unhealthy state is being driven by human behaviour, and the need for fossil fuels that has happened within the last 200 years. The UN IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) wrote in 2007 that "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal". The effects of climate change can be seen in one off extreme events, which impact areas such as flooding in low lying coastal communities, as well as gradual changes.
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