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Category: Climate Action
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Essential Understandings: Climate Change, Climate Justice, Climate Action
In this article, members of the UMCJM Coordinating Team clarify some of their essential understandings about climate change, climate justice, and climate action in the hope that it will stimulate discussion and action among United Methodist leaders, agencies, jurisdictions, conferences, churches, and church members about this critical issue. Essential Understandings: Climate Change, Climate Justice, Climate…
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After 12 Years of Advocacy, Presbyterian Church USA Approves Fossil Fuel Divestment
Image used with permission of Presbyterian Outlook. To all United Methodists who support fossil fuel divestment because of the harms caused by climate change: Take heart from this story from the PC (USA). It took them 12 years to succeed in getting this passed. In the United Methodist Church, Fossil Free UMC has been working…
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Baltimore-Washington Conference Votes to Divest from Fossil Fuels
By Rev. Sharee Wharton The Baltimore-Washington Conference took a meaningful step toward faithful environmental stewardship at the 242nd Annual Conference by successfully passing the Resolution on Fossil Fuel Divestment. Rooted in a deep commitment to creation care and justice, the resolution was presented by Cynthia Taylor, who helped bring both clarity and urgency to the issue. Support…
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Santa Marta Conference: Envisioning the Transformation of the World
“The transition away from fossil fuels is not a matter of ideology. It is a matter of survival, of justice, of fidelity to the very ground of our being.” – Multi-faith Call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Faith groups from around the world were a strong presence in Santa Marta, Colombia at the end…
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Next Step for UMC Net Zero Agencies: Divest from Fossil Fuels
By Sharon Delgado “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:21). In the above passage, Jesus tells us to value spiritual treasures above our material treasures. This passage also reminds us that how we use or invest our material treasures expresses our spiritual values, for “where your treasure is, there your…
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Obstacles to Strong Climate Action
Image used with permission by the Climate Reality Project “We affirm our sacred calling to be responsible stewards and to lovingly tend all that God has wrought. We recognize the inherent worth of God’s creation, celebrate earth’s abundance and diversity, and, along with the entirety of the cosmos, give praise to its Creator. We recognize…
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The Fierce Urgency of Now in Response to Climate Change
Image used with permission, World Resources Institute, Creative Commons. The Fierce Urgency of Now in Response to Climate Change “See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation!” — 2 Corinthians 6:2 “We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is…
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Speak From the Floor on Divestment
Every year annual conferences meet to do the work of the church and conference, seeking to live faith through worship and agreements about how to live a life together as people of God. The worship part fills the soul while the agreements part, which begins by bringing legislation or a resolution (same thing) to the…
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