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  • Let’s Shake the Coal Dust Off our Feet

    Let’s Shake the Coal Dust Off our Feet

      It’s Past Time for United Methodists to Divest from Fossil Fuels Jesus said: “If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”   Mark 6:11 It’s past time for the United Methodist Church to shake… Read more

  • Engagement & Divestment, Four Key Points

    Engagement & Divestment, Four Key Points

    A stable pension and a stable climate go hand in hand. Most people agree that in the face of the harms of climate change, some form of engagement is necessary to deal with the compounding environmental and climate pollution impacts of oil and gas companies. The question is, what type of engagement is measurably working… Read more

  • Do the Math: Divesting from Fossil Fuels

    Do the Math: Divesting from Fossil Fuels

    Way back in 2012, just when the fossil fuel divestment movement was getting started, United Methodist and climate leader Bill McKibben popularized a simple mathematical formula that calculates what might make it possible to move away from the threshold of climate chaos. The math comes from economists and scientists, but was given widespread attention when… Read more

  • Lenten Reflection in Verse

    Lenten Reflection in Verse

    Climate, Crisis and Numbers I am growing weary of the phrase’collective self-annihilation’spoken by folks in powerasserting a perspective that their actionsand their behaviors are‘ours.’ The royal ‘we.’ It is spoken in politeness,in proximity—complicitly—simultaneouslypolite enough not to call outor offend, but to pretendand get to join, as if ‘we’we really are buddiesenjoying the plunderextraction and colonialism… Read more

  • A Lenten Reflection on Divesting from Fossil Fuels

    A Lenten Reflection on Divesting from Fossil Fuels

    This reflection was written to be published in the upcoming MFSA newsletter. As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you,… Read more

  • 10 Reasons for Wespath to support fossil fuel divestment

    10 Reasons for Wespath to support fossil fuel divestment

    As of December 2023, 1,600 institutions and organizations have chosen divestment. Estimated divested funds total $41 trillion dollars, with faith-based organizations representing a full 35.7% of that total. Where your treasure is, there your hearts will be also. Matthew 6:21 Below find ten reasons to divest–centering the efforts and concerns of Wespath. As United Methodists,… Read more