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Changing lives, changing churches for changing communities
Welcome to our website. The words
above encapsulate our Diocesan vision. And as we are part of a world which is
constantly changing the Diocesan Synod has now made a further commitment to:
Changing Lives…. for a Changing World.
The section of this website entitled "Our
commitment" was adopted by the Diocesan Synod on 3 March
2007 as a statement of environmental commitment.
Supporting
this are a number of pages which unpack what this means.
"Vision
for the future" is a picture of a possible Eco-diocese
in the year 2015.
The next pages
provide some background information: outlining the scale of the
problems we face, opening up some of the theological themes
which can help us face these and describing the relationship
between simplicity and spirituality.
Then we look
at how we need to change our church life, and do things
differently.
The final
section describes resources which can help us in doing things
differently: study courses and books, other organisations,
sources of advice, but firstly, sources of material which can be
helpful in our worship and prayer.
There are also
examples of what churches have done, a description of the Go
Zero project in Chew Magna, and 30 tips to get you started
The Diocesan
Synod was not asked to approve all these papers. They are an
attempt to sketch out the information and the thinking behind
'…for a Changing World', and to help in the process.
The papers can
be reproduced and each page is available as a pdf download. You
will need Adobe Acrobat Reader - a free download - to view
these. Some of the pages will be regularly updated. Some are
discussion starters. Not everyone will be interested in every
one. Not everyone will agree with all of them.
Synod approved
the first one, '…. for a Changing World.' The rest are offered
as a help.
David Osborne
Chair
Diocesan
Environmental Working Party
6th March 2007
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