Category: Climate Justice

  • Follow the Mission, Not the Money Managers

    Follow the Mission, Not the Money Managers

    Follow the Money, Not the Money Managers by Mark Davies The transformation of the world does not mean the destruction of the world or the destruction of a livable cimate for all life on earth. The United Methodist Church should not be investing and profiting from the fossil fuel companies that have created and are

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  • California Nevada and California-Pacific Annual Conferences Join Pacific Northwest and Desert Southwest in Divesting from Fossil Fuels

    California Nevada and California-Pacific Annual Conferences Join Pacific Northwest and Desert Southwest in Divesting from Fossil Fuels

    After the passage of the fossil fuel divestment resolution, the Cal-Nevada Creation Justice Task Force and Summit Planning Team gather to celebrate. Photo by restaurant staff, used with permission. By Sharon Delgado This article presents an overview of 2025 fossil fuel divestment resolutions passed by annual conferences in the Western Jurisdiction. It describes how they

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  • Divestment Summit in Cal-Nevada Brings Action for Divestment

    Divestment Summit in Cal-Nevada Brings Action for Divestment

    Watch the Summit Here See the various speakers at the following times on the video, or find the separate presentations at the YouTube link above: 00:00 – Intro 2:51 – Bishop Sandra K. Olewine 11:55 – William Morris 1:25:47 – Jim Antal 2:12:26 – Jake Barnett 2:36:31 – Julia Frisbie 3:04:00 – Daniel Cohn “The

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  • A Model Fossil Fuel Divestment Resolution for Annual Conferences

    A Model Fossil Fuel Divestment Resolution for Annual Conferences

    This post is a Model Resolution on Fossil Fuel Divestment from Fossil Free UMC and the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, with a substitute resolution to present as an amendment or substitute if Resolution 1 is strongly opposed and likely to fail. Resolution 1:   Divesting From Fossil Fuels as an Annual Conference. In addition,

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  • Watch Fossil Fuel Divestment Summit

    Watch Fossil Fuel Divestment Summit

    Watch the Summit Here See the various speakers at the following times on the video, or find the separate presentations at the YouTube link above: 00:00 – Intro 2:51 – Bishop Sandra K. Olewine 11:55 – William Morris 1:25:47 – Jim Antal 2:12:26 – Jake Barnett 2:36:31 – Julia Frisbie 3:04:00 – Daniel Cohn The

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  • Watch the Boycott Chevron Webinar

    Watch the Boycott Chevron Webinar

    Presented by UMKR, MFSA, and Fossil Free UMC on March 12, 2025 Go the the UM Kairos Response Website to watch the recording:https://www.kairosresponse.org/webinar_12march2025_chevronboycott.html Ending Israeli occupation and genocide is a climate justice issue.  All over the world, struggles against colonialism and the destruction of God’s creation by corporations for the sake of profit are intrinsically

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  • “Divestment with Fossil Free UMC” Movement Cafe Video

    “Divestment with Fossil Free UMC” Movement Cafe Video

    Watch the Recording Here. Fossil Fuel Divestment is the focus of this first Movement Cafe of 2025. This conversation connects the dots as to why divestment is an important tool to fight climate change. Fossil Free UMC member Jaydee Hanson speaks about how divestment would help the United Methodist Church act on what it has

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  • ENGAGING THE UMC IN CLIMATE CHANGE

    ENGAGING THE UMC IN CLIMATE CHANGE

    by William (“Bill”) Myers and Kenneth Lynn Jobe Introduction How did the UMC get from its declared mission of discipleship of Jesus Christ, “to transform the world”, to continuing to invest over a billion dollars in fossil fuels when it is fully informed they annually kill and harm millions of people and massively damage the

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