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  • Speaking Up for Climate Action: A Training for United Methodist Bishops

    Speaking Up for Climate Action: A Training for United Methodist Bishops

    Several members of the Coordinating Team of the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement (which includes Fossil Free UMC) have been working on this training for United Methodist Bishops, in cooperation with the Garrett Collective on Environmental Regeneration. The recording is now out and available for all to see. Watch the Full Recording Here Watch Selected… Read more

  • Essential Understandings: Climate Change, Climate Justice, Climate Action

    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… Read more

  • The Unjust Burden: Why The United Methodist Church Should Support Climate Debt Cancellation in Africa

    The Unjust Burden: Why The United Methodist Church Should Support Climate Debt Cancellation in Africa

    By Jefferson Boye Knight, Director of Human Rights Monitor, which is the United Methodist Peace with Justice Program of the Liberia Annual Conference. Find out more about him below. Climate debt cancellation in Africa is a human rights imperative. See Resolution #4053 (Global Debt Crisis: A Call for Jubilee) in the Book of Resolutions of… Read more

  • After 12 Years of Advocacy, Presbyterian Church USA Approves Fossil Fuel Divestment

    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… Read more

  • Baltimore-Washington Conference Votes to Divest from Fossil Fuels

    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… Read more

  • Santa Marta Conference: Envisioning the Transformation of the World

    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… Read more