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Date posted: 25 September 2023
Operation Noah is hiring for a Bright Now Campaign Director and has extended the application deadline to Monday 13 November at 5pm. We will begin accepting applications again on Monday 2 October. The Campaign Director position is a full-time role, working 35 hours per week, with an emphasis on encouraging UK Churches to divest from fossil fuel companies and invest in climate solutions.
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Date posted: 22 September 2023
Operation Noah trustee, Mick Oliver, reviews this powerful new teaching series from Revd Jon Swales and Alice Brencher.
In a world of news and stories, truth and lies, it’s hard to navigate how, as a Christian, I should respond to climate change. It’s also hard to navigate my own feelings of despair, worry, guilt and hope.
The Revd John Swales with Alice Brencher leads a series of six in-depth studies into climate justice, explaining and exploring how we should respond as Christians. This is done in a truth-filled, gentle manner through facts, Bible verses, prayers and personal reflective poems.
This teaching series from Swales and Brencher is good follow-on to Operation Noah’s Tenants of the King Bible study, which I highly recommend. The sessions are:
The course can be used in many ways:
Keeping in mind that Operation Noah is not only deeply realistic about the profound environmental challenges we face, but also ‘hope-inspired’, we will explore the role of the prophet and of the prophetic imagination in the context of the current climate and nature crises. How can Christian climate campaigners inspire the Church, our neighbours and our politicians to lead the way towards a safer climate and brighter future?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently published its 6th Assessment Working Group III report (‘Mitigation of Climate Change’). In this blog, Bright Now Campaign Officer Sharon Hall explores key findings of the report and what it means for our work on fossil fuels, investment in climate solutions and nature-based solutions.
Operation Noah has recorded an episode of ‘Walking Humbly’ – a new Christian Aid podcast for Lent, which released this month. Listen to it here.
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In an open letter published in Friday’s Church Times (25 February), six bishops and 130 clergy including Rt Revd Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Revd Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Revd Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James’s Church, Piccadilly, have called on the Church of England’s Church Commissioners to divest immediately from oil giant ExxonMobil.
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Date posted: 24 August 2023
In this month’s newsletter, we look forward to this Saturday’s Operation Noah-led panel discussion on ‘Church Land and the Climate Crisis’ at the Greenbelt Festival, announce our theme for our 14 October Supporters’ Event, advertise our need for two new trustees and a new Campaign Director, and much more. Read the full August 2023 newsletter here.
Written originally in German, and with many references to Germany, it is nevertheless applicable anywhere that is dominated by a culture of over-consumption, ambition around accumulation of wealth and possessions, and obsession with a growth economy.
Join us this Saturday 26 August, 6.30pm to 7.30pm, at the Greenbelt Festival as our own Julia Corcoran chairs a panel discussion called Church Land and the Climate Crisis in the Hot House venue. The event will feature contributions from Andy Atkins of A Rocha UK, from our Bright Now Campaign Officer Sharon Hall and from Elizabeth Perry of Anglican Alliance.
Operation Noah is looking for a new Bright Now Campaign Director – a paid, full-time role – as well as for volunteer trustees who have experience in human resources or fundraising, or have the ability to learn what is needed to be a trustee with responsibility for one of these areas. Please note that the deadline to apply for the Bright Now Campaign Director is Friday 8 September 2023.
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Date posted: 12 July 2023
In this month’s newsletter, we share some exciting environmental news from the Church of England General Synod in York, celebrate the decision by the Diocese of York to divest from fossil fuels, look forward to our panel discussion at the Greenbelt Festival, and much more.
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Date posted: 30 June 2023
In our latest newsletter, we recount the history of our decade-long campaign to get the Church of England to divest and also look at the potential impact of the Church’s divestment on global investors, on Church of England dioceses, on the Catholic Church in England and Wales and on the other areas of our work – impact investing and Church land use.
