September 2011 Blog Posts (29)

David Shreeve’s last Creation Time 2011 Blog

So, Creation Time 2011 draws to a close.  How was it for you?  Until the Christian Ecology Link diary of events arrived a few minutes ago I was beginning to think Creation Time might be one of our best kept secrets.  From my own experience in a variety of churches and church meetings over the past few weeks I have not heard Creation Time mentioned once. 

Thanks to the CEL Diary and the wonderful…

Ecocide: ? a new Global Green politics…

http://www.thehamiltongroup.org.uk/common/ecocide.asp

"Once upon a time people did grievous harm to the environment without fully understanding the…

Last Saturday, in an interview in the Times, the comic actor Rowan Atkinson…

David Shreeve's Creation Time blog number 4

Could you celebrate Creation Time 2011 to starting a local growing project?

If your church is in Wales there’s a new scheme to help create allotments, community gardens, community orchards and community supported agriculture. Called Tyfu Pobl (Growing People) it is a direct result of booming interest in community food growing and creating natural green spaces.

A series of training and…

There we are, trying not to be too complaining about everything, and the Guardian gets me going again.

Having moaned – with absolute legitimacy –…

The Meissen Commission finished it’s five-year work period on Monday and our report will now be completed and published in due course. The new Commission will begin work in the new year, completing it’s work in 2016 – leading into Germany’s Reformation Year, the 500th anniversary of the…

Whatever the immediate causes of the riots/disturbances that overtook many of England’s cities in August, there is a pressing need to address their underlying causes. 

Whilst much has been written and said by politicians and pundits in the past 5-6 weeks, it is the communities, families and individuals directly affected by the disturbances who must be at the centre of determining not just what caused them, but what needs to be…

The Meissen Commission continued it’s work this morning with a review of last night’s interfaith seminar at the German Embassy.

This then led into a deeper discussion of how…

David Shreeve's Creation Time 2011 blog number 3

An email arrived this week to let me know that Lincolnshire is the surprise winner of a public poll to find Britain’s Favourite Food Spot, seeing off tough competition from Cornwall and Hampshire.

The poll was conducted to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the national food celebration, British Food Fortnight, which starts this weekend. The story reported that an over-the-moon spokesman for Tastes of…

Twenty years isn’t a long time in the grand sweep of history. Which makes it remarkable that agreements made in a very different world only two decades ago can have had such an impact on how countries and churches relate to each other.

In the mid-1980s Germany was divided and the Cold War…

The Duchess, the City Farm and the Palestinian …

HRH Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall visited Walworth Garden Farm in Southwark on…

Following Morning prayer and breakfast, the College of Bishops meeting then breaks down into small groups for Lectio Divina – which is simply a way of engaging everyone in a reading of and reflection on a passage from the Bible. It is always fascinating and surprising to see who focuses on what…

OK, it’s a tacky title from a tacky song. But, I was reminded of it during a fascinating cross-cultural session at the College of Bishops meeting in Oxford today.

Bishop…

There we were, thinking the Anglican Communion was all about conflict and tension, scrapping and bitching, and someone has to spoil it by telling a different story. Where’s consistency when you need it?

I am in Oxford for the annual meeting of all the bishops in the Church of England. It…

So, following on from my previous post – what have been the

genuine outcomes of inter faith relations over the past 10 years? In my humble

opinion it has undoubtedly been Christian-Muslim relations. Although there have

been countless attempts to present a contrary image the last 10 years has an

unsung story of Muslims and Christians trying their hardest to avert mistrust

between their different communities.

It did not feel like that at times however!…