Christian Faith in a World of Climate Change - Castle Street Methodist Church, 25th October 2008

The conference aims to provide a variety of platforms for discussion in order to explore its themes. Three keynote speakers will each give a brief, focused address at the beginning of the day and later respond to written questions from participants in a panel discussion at the end of the day. Between the two sessions, workshops will be held on a range of practical and theoretical topics.

The schedule for the day is summarised below:

0900Registration opens
1000Welcome session
1015Keynote speeches
1135First round of workshops
1250Lunch
1400Second round of workshops
1520Panel discussion
1630Closing session

There will be opportunities throughout the day to gather questions and feedback from the keynote speeches and workshops for inclusion in the afternoon panel discussion.

Keynote speeches

  • What does it mean to have Christian faith in a world moving into crisis?
  • Climate change and political action: what is our Christian responsibility?
  • Climate change - how can the Church challenge society?
Speakers

Workshop topics

  • Renewable energy sources
  • Climate change and biblical themes of apocalypse
  • Themes of climate change within Christian worship
  • The Bible and our response to climate change
  • Climate change, poverty and development issues
  • The science of climate change: an update for beginners
  • Climate change: what's being done about it in the churches in the UK?
  • Your carbon footprint and what you can do about it
  • Climate change policy and the trade unions
  • Climate change policy: national, local and in the EU
  • Minding Sustainability: creating conditions for psychological engagement with ecological crisis
Leaders