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  • It’s Time to Phase Out Fossil Fuels!

    It’s Time to Phase Out Fossil Fuels!

    It’s time to phase out fossil fuels! In this decade. Not just from our investments. I mean it’s time for us to start significantly reducing and phasing out fossil fuels now. I know this sounds almost impossible, but this is the what science is telling us. Consider the recently released 2024 State of the Climate Read more

  • The Last Beneficiary

    The Last Beneficiary

    As we move forward with Fossil Free UMC, I rejoice that a young seminary student named Spenser Ross is inspired and ready to put some time into these efforts. He and I met in June at the California-Nevada Annual Conference when I spoke with the Young Adult Delegation, and again during the plenary when Spenser Read more

  • Vote Climate and Divest from Fossil Fuels

    Vote Climate and Divest from Fossil Fuels

    As published in United Methodist Insight. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.                    Ephesians 6:12 (NIV) During this election season, those of us who continue to work toward fossil fuel Read more

  • Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

    Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

    In our last Fossil Free UMC post, Fossil Fuels and Climate: Counting the Cost, we acknowledged the dilemma of trying to strategize about how best to address the climate crisis: “The world cannot keep burning fossil fuels at the current rate if we hope to limit planetary heating, yet the global system within which we Read more

  • Fossil Fuels and Climate: Counting the Cost

    Fossil Fuels and Climate: Counting the Cost

    Fossil Fuels and Climate: Counting the Cost “For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?”   Luke 14:28 When Jesus spoke these words, he was using the scenario of building a tower to illustrate the cost of Read more

  • Cal-Nevada to Host Summit on Fossil Fuel Divestment

    Cal-Nevada to Host Summit on Fossil Fuel Divestment

    “Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness. Such investments will soon be stranded assets — a blot on the landscape and a blight on investment portfolios.”  UN Secretary-General, António Guterres California-Nevada passed a recommendation submitted by the Climate Justice Ministries Task Force at the June Annual Conference Session to identify and Read more