Advent Series 2024: Waiting for God in the Climate Crisis - Week 2: Peace in the Wilderness
Please join me for a series of Advent reflections and prayers in our time of climate crisis. Each post arrives on Friday in time for the following Sunday in Advent.
This is week two of my series of reflections and prayers for Advent this year. Scroll down to find this week’s offering! 🕯️
In Germany for the Accra+20 Consultation
This week I have been in Hannover, Germany to meet with members of the World Communion of Reformed Churches for a consultation on the Accra Confession. The Accra Confession is a public document written by the World Communion of Reformed Churches in 2004 as a response to increasing global economic inequality and ecological degradation. It is a prophetic call to member churches worldwide to take the cries of the poor and the Earth community seriously and advocate for systemic change.
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Now that 20 years have passed since it was released, it is time to come together to review the Confession and renew our commitment to economic and ecological justice. As explained in the concept note I was sent with my invitation:
The structure of the three-day consultations [will] celebrate the gains of the Accra Confession in calling the churches to witness for economic and ecological justice on the first day. [We will] confess our complicity in perpetuating ecological and economic injsutice on the second day while we recognise the importance of beocming a confessing church. The final day will work towards realising the need of the church to covenant for justice in the economy and in the earth.
On the second day, I gave a talk on the implications of the Accra Confession for a Christian discipleship of climate action and Earth healing. All of the sessions along with the formal and informal conversations have been rich and fruitful. Please pray that the work of this consultation, and all of the efforts of the WCRC member churches, help lead to the economic justice and Earth healing that is needed for the world. This is your weekly nudge.
Are you familiar with the Accra Confession? You can read it HERE.
ADVENT SERIES 2024:
Waiting for God in the Climate Crisis
This is Week 2. For this year’s Advent reflection series, I have chosen the theme of kenosis. Kenosis means self-emptying, about giving of the self for the sake of the other. It is an ancient metaphor and model in Christianity, yet it has illuminating potential for today. Kenosis is about the sacrifice that is required of us if we are to effectively respond to the climate and ecological crisis. More, it is in such sacrifice, in our self-emptying that we meet the other and find ourselves.
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(2) Second week of Advent: Peace in the Wilderness
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