These resources offer helpful materials – but the Diocese of Chichester does not necessarily share nor endorse all the perspectives and views expressed.
Websites – from a Christian perspective
- Church of England Environment
- Arocha UK (practical national and international projects, Wild Christian, Eco Church)
- CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development)
- Christian Aid COP28 Briefing paper
- Green Christian (Christian Ecology Link)
- Eco Church
- John Ray Initiative (connecting environment, science and Christianity)
- Joy in Enough (new economics)
- Operation Noah (climate change)
- Christian Climate Action (non-violent direct action, public witness, part of Extinction Rebellion)
Websites – from a general perspective
News:
- BBC Science and Environment
- Guardian Environment
- New Economics Foundation
- Thomson Reuters Foundation News (Climate)
- Unearthed (Greenpeace investigative journalism)
Schools:
Blogs – from a Christian perspective
- Ruth Valerio’s Blog (Christian and environmental issues)
- Katherine Hayhoe’s Blog (Leading Christian US climate scientist)
Recommended Reading:
Climate Change Science:
Small Gases, Big Effects (This is Climate Change) David Nelles, Christian Serrer
Climate Fresk - 3 hours in person or online session.
Theology:
Starting out:
Valerio, Ruth. Just Living : Faith and Community in an Age of Consumerism, Hodder (2016)
Valerio, Ruth, L is for Lifestyle: Christian Living that Doesn’t Cost the Earth. IVP, revised edition (2008) [paperback and e-book]
Dave Bookless:Planetwise IVP 2008
Dave Bookless:God doesn’t do waste. IVP 2010
Making a World of Difference (Renew Our World, 2023) Dave Bookless (free to download)
Denis Edwards. Partaking of God: Trinity, Evolution, and Ecology. Michael Glazier (2014). Pope Francis.Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015)
Grove Books:
In the Mission and Evangelism: Forest Church: Earthed Perspectives on the Gospel (2019) Revd Dr Cate Wiliams
In the Mission and Evangelism series: Climate Action as Mission: How to Link the Gospel with Safeguarding Creation (2021) by Grace Thomas and Mark Coleman
In the Ethics series: An Introduction to Environmental Ethics (2017), Hodson, Martin J. and Hodson, Margot R.
In the Discipleship series: Renewing the Life of the Earth: Christian Discipleship and Environmental Action (2021) by Rachel Mash
In the Biblical series:Marlow, Hilary, The Earth is the Lord's: A Biblical Response to Environmental Issues (2008),
Going deeper
Moo, Douglas J., and Moo, Jonathan A., Creation Care : a Biblical Theology of the Natural World. Zondervan (2018), (250 pp.) [paperback and e-book]
Elizabeth Johnson:Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the Love of God.Bloomsbury Continuum, 2015
Ellen Davies Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible. CUP Oct 2008
Walter Brueggemann: The Land: Place as Gift, Promise and Challenge in Biblical Faith.Fortress Press 2002
A M Ranawana: A Liberation for the Earth: Climate Race and the Cross. SCM Press, 2022.
Norman Wirzba: This Sacred Life: Humanity’s place in a wounded world. 2021 Cambridge University Press
Bauckham Richard, Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation, Darton, Longman, & Todd (2010), (226 pp.)
Horrell, David, The Bible and the Environment: Towards a Critical, Ecological Biblical Theology, Equinox (2010)