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  • 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

  • Creation Justice Breaking Through! General Conference Wrap Up from Fossil Free UMC

    Creation Justice Breaking Through! General Conference Wrap Up from Fossil Free UMC

    We have a lot to celebrate from General Conference this year with huge steps forward to address climate justice, environmental urgency and netzero. We are breaking through! Fossil Free UMC has a renewed mandate, next steps, and new partners for faithful and revitalizing climate action in the United Methodist Church. There was good to be… Read more

  • 5 Reasons for Annual Conferences to Divest from Fossil Fuels

    5 Reasons for Annual Conferences to Divest from Fossil Fuels

    Fossil Free UMC is building on momentum achieved at General Conference! As we stride into a clean, sustainable, and faithful future, the next step is to extend this movement by urging individual United Methodists and our local churches, agencies, and annual conferences to divest from fossil fuels. Already, Wespath has announced more divestment options for… Read more

  • The Revised Social Principles, The Community of All Creation, and General Conference

    The Revised Social Principles, The Community of All Creation, and General Conference

    By Sharon Delgado and Mark Davies The Revised Social Principles passed at the recent General Conference, supported by Fossil Free UMC, the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, MFSA, the Love Your Neighbor Coalition, and so many others. Mark Davies chaired and Sharon Delgado served on the initial team that was convened by the General Board… Read more