August 18, 2021
For over 50 years scientists have been warning us that we need to change our ways. The agreements made at the Paris Conference (COP 21, in […]
August 6, 2021
I have finally got round to reading E J Mishan’s The Costs of Economic Growth, a book I bought for an Economics course in the 1970s. […]
March 26, 2021
Rev’d Helen Burnett is a member of the Council of Modern Church and has written the following, which details her ongoing work with XR. There has […]
December 8, 2020
Now that we are looking forward to getting vaccinated and once again hugging our friends, it’s easy to assume that this year’s pandemic has been a […]
September 11, 2020
I owe the title to Juliet Du Boulay’s study of traditional village life on a Greek island 50 years ago, before the people adapted to modernity. […]
June 5, 2020
Earlier in the year I wrote a blog for MC about links between the Environment Catastrophe and Covid-19. Since then we have had ten weeks in […]
May 4, 2020
How we wish the world was different! But how much of our wishing comes from self-centredness? I recently posted on the limits to human knowledge. This […]
April 6, 2019
In February 2014 local churches responded positively to the collapse of the sea wall at Dawlish in Devon, which saw the rail line severed and people […]
February 6, 2019
Air pollution is ‘ the new tobacco‘, said the World Health Authority a short time ago: ‘the simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a […]