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Eco Bishops burn jet fuel to bemoan carbon emissions

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Various bishops – they call themselves “Eco Bishops” – are going to meet in Cape Town next week to commiserate together on how everyone else is causing global warming by producing too much carbon dioxide.

Canada has its very own Eco Bishops – I feel so proud; among them are: Jane Alexander, bishop of Edmonton and Mark MacDonald, National Indigenous Bishop.

My favourite sentence from the ACNS article is:

The goal is to strategise together in order strategies for raising the issue of climate change and environmental degradation throughout the global Anglican Church.

Only the Anglican News Service could come up with such a lucid definition of what this is all about. I have to admit, though, they have one thing right: there really is “environmental degradation throughout the global Anglican Church”; although, the global Anglican Church is more disintegrating than degrading.

Anglicans want bishops to become weathermen

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A survey response from 120 Anglicans demands that their bishops “become fluent with the science of climate change”; this, they said will be “prophetic”. That is a good point. Anglican bishops have had years of valuable experience: the only thing less reliable than weather forecasts are prophecies from Anglican bishops.

From here:

“What sort of leadership in response to global climate change would you hope to receive from a group of Anglican bishops and archbishops?”

This question garnered over 120 responses from Anglicans Communion-wide when posed early in July by the Anglican Communion Environmental Network (ACEN).

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So what do respondents name as priorities? They certainly want the bishops to be bold, vocal and to speak with a sense of urgency. The word “prophetic” appears again and again. Otherwise the bishops should be “visionary, courageous, strong, uncompromising, wise, discerning, proactive and humble.”

To whom should they speak? Both to the Church but also to civil society, governments, industry and policy makers. Many respondents cited visible and consistent dialogue with other Churches and like-minded organisations as essential.

Respondents want bishops to do their homework and become fluent with the science of climate change and work very much in public with national and international bodies. One respondent urged the bishops to “use the bully pulpit to galvanize folks in the pew and others to realise this is a real disaster in the making.” Others want bishops to join marches and go public with their personal commitments. Many want the bishops, all bishops, clergy and lay leaders to live in a different and noticeable way.

In an era of horrifying and grotesque Christian persecution, it’s comforting to see Anglicans concentrating on what is really important.

Anglican climate bishops

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Faster than a speeding mark of mission, more powerful than Al Gore, able to leap foul smoke stacks in a single bound – he’s Eco-Bishop.

From here:

Anglican Communion’s Eco-bishops’ intiative [sic] begins to take shape.

The Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, the Most Revd Dr Thabo Makgoba has invited 20 bishops from around the Anglican Communion to join him in a process of discussion and discernment concerning the Communion’s witness and mission in the face of climate change and environmental degradation.

“I have asked a number of sister and brother bishops in dioceses already experiencing the impacts of climate change to join me in a process of dialogue”, said Archbishop Makgoba.

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The invitation is to participate in a process of dialogue leading to, and following on, a face-to-face meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, in February 2015.

The bishops will, of course, be flying, not walking, to their Cape Town meeting.

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