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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… Read more

  • “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… Read more

  • Next Step for UMC Net Zero Agencies: Divest from Fossil Fuels

    Next Step for UMC Net Zero Agencies: Divest from Fossil Fuels

    By Sharon Delgado Published in UM Creation Justice Movement’s February 2025 Newsletter “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… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • Net Zero Needs Fossil Fuel Divestment

    Net Zero Needs Fossil Fuel Divestment

    By Jaydee Hanson The United Methodist Church cannot meet its net zero goals unless it diversifies from investments in fossil fuels. The net zero goals are targets that all of the agencies of the church and our bishops agreed to meet by 2050. This means that all of our activities as the church at a… Read more

  • A Theological Reflection on Divestment from Fossil Fuels

    A Theological Reflection on Divestment from Fossil Fuels

    by The Reverend Pat Watkins God told Adam to “till and keep” the garden, the first vocational call laid upon humanity that we know of.  God asked Noah to preserve all the animals that God had made, a uniquely human task of preserving God’s creation.  The covenant that God made with Noah and family also… Read more