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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Climate Justice and COP29
“We confess that the negative impacts resulting from the degradation of the natural world have fallen disproportionately on marginalized communities, including indigenous tribes, religious and ethnic communities, people living in poverty, and other vulnerable groups. We, therefore, pledge to resist all forms of environmental exploitation, neglect, and inequality…We oppose policies and practices that relegate marginalized
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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
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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
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