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Lenten counsels come thick and (carbon) fast
by Bill Bowder
 Spring bulb: the Bishops of Liverpool (left) and London were joined by a giant inflatable replica of an energy-saving light bulb in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday, when they launched Tearfund’s Carbon Fast |
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“GIVE up some carbon for Lent” is one of the many suggestions for self-denial this year. It was the message of the Bishops of London and Liverpool when they launched Tearfund’s Carbon Fast challenge in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday. The campaign is backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who said that he is cutting down flying “drastically”. “There is a moral imperative on those of us who emit more than our fair share of carbon to rein in our consumption,” the Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd James Jones, said. |
 New C of E booklet: Love Life Live Lent2: Be good neighbours |
| The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Richard Chartres, also launched his diocese’s “Education for All” Lent appeal at St John’s Primary School, Friern Barnet, on Wednesday. He hopes to raise £75,000 for education in Angola and Mozambique to support the Millennium Development Goal of universal education for all. Church Action on Poverty (CAP) has prepared a free online “Just Church” programme for Lent (www.justchurch.info). Niall Cooper, national co-ordinator of CAP, said: “Local churches in the UK are becoming increasingly aware of the injustice and poverty that exists all around them.” On a different theme, the director of education for Blackburn diocese, the Archdeacon of Lancaster, the Ven. Peter Ballard, proposed that all the 200 C of E schools in Lancashire should give up emails for Lent and write letters and use the phone instead to cut stress levels. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have written a foreword to the C of E’s Love Life Live Lent2 booklet, which proposes 50 actions of simple “neighbourly” love. There is a website: www.livelent.net. The Revd Joel Edwards, who chairs the Churches’ Media Council, has asked leaders to prepare their churches for the broadcast of the BBC1 series, The Passion, during Holy Week. It recommends the website www.rejesus.co.uk for people exploring the faith. Tearfund carbon fast |
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