September E-News
Every moment is the perfect moment for climate justice ‘Creation Cries Out’: Christian Climate Action as part of Restore Nature Now, 22 June 2024 (pic: Shanon Shah) Dear Faith for the Climate network, This monthly update is arriving in your inboxes later than usual, but I’m too excited to even apologise. These past couple of months, […]
Faith for the Climate celebrates Black History Month
All images are public domain and/or used with permission. Clockwise from top left: Mumbi Nkonde, Nelson Mandela, Dionne Gravesande, Martin Luther King Jr., rehena Harilall, Audre Lorde. Centre: Jesse Jackson Dear Faith for the Climate network, And just like that, we are more than halfway through October, which is Black History Month in the UK. In […]
States of climate action
November 2025 Faith for the Climate at the faith and belief bloc for the COP26 Global Day of Action, Glasgow, 6 Nov 2021 (Pic by Giles Goddard) Dear Faith for the Climate network, Welcome to the November edition of our e-news. This update comes to you as we approach the UN climate conference, COP30, in Belém, Brazil. This […]
NOVEMBER SPECIAL: COP30 and Inter Faith Week
Our chair and co-founder Canon Giles Goddard addressing the faith bloc at the COP28 Global Day of Action in London, 9 Dec 2023 (pic by Shanon Shah) Dear Faith for the Climate network, November is probably when I send out my lengthiest monthly updates because it’s always That Time of the Year — when the UN climate talks (COP) […]
Flowers in the cracks
December 2025 Noticing the wildflowers growing through the cracks (pic by Shanon) Dear Faith for the Climate network, If, like me, you were following the news headlines about this year’s UN climate conference, COP30, you would probably concluded that it was yet another disappointment. But, when I was at COP26 in Glasgow, I managed to […]
Begin as you mean to go on
January 2026 Savault Chapel in a clear starry night, in Ouroux-en-Morvan, Bourgogne, France (by Benh LIEU SONG, Wikimedia Commons) Dear Faith for the Climate network, Welcome to our first e-news update of the year. It arrives slightly later than usual, as the Faith for the Climate team took some time to rest over recent weeks. […]
What to do with the monsters?
February 2026 ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’ by Francisco Goya (Public Domain) Dear Faith for the Climate network, Greetings and welcome to our February update. I’ve been having some very strange dreams recently, and maybe this is why I’ve been thinking about this famous etching, ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’, by the Spanish […]
‘Only love can conquer hate’
March 2026 Father, father, we don’t need to escalateYou see, war is not the answer – for only love can conquer hate – Marvin Gaye, ‘What’s Going On’ Dear Faith for the Climate network, Greetings and welcome to our March update. In early 2022, after all that Faith for the Climate achieved at COP26, the UN […]
Easter and Ecological Justice
April 2026 In ‘Harrowing of Hades’, a fresco in the parecclesion or side mortuary chapel of the Chora Church, Istanbul, c. 1315, the raising of Adam and Eve is depicted as part of the Resurrection icon, as it always is in the East. © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 3.0 Dear Faith for the Climate network, Greetings and […]
Spring Cleaning and Hope
May 2026 A three-dimensional rendering of the metaphor of Indra’s Net (By Bunyk, CC BY 4.0) Dear Faith for the Climate network, Greetings and welcome to our May update. This comes a bit earlier than usual because of the Bank Holiday weekend and local elections on 7 May. To begin with, let me reiterate that […]