Bishop warns of environmental catastrophe
“GOD’S EARTH is not so much in danger as heading for catastrophe,” the Bishop of Wolverhampton, the Rt Revd Clive Gregory, said in his diocesan newsletter this month. Disaster could still be averted, however. “I am in no doubt that it is our Christian responsibility to take a lead in shaping opinion on this subject,” he said. Christians in the diocese could start by attending the January sales without using any additional bags.
General public blamed for nuclear choice
THE PUBLIC’s unwillingness to cut back on its energy consumption meant that the Government had no choice but to give the go-ahead for new nuclear power stations, the Bishop of Shrewsbury, Dr Alan Smith, said on Wednesday. “This demand isn’t being led by Government: it’s being led by consumers.” His statement coincided with a visit to Lichfield Cathedral to inspect its low-energy light bulbs, part of diocese’s Lent challenge, “A Heart for Creation”.
Jesus statue attracts complaints
A SMALL STATUE of Jesus with an erection at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts in Gateshead by the Chinese-born artist Terence Koh, has been the subject of four written complaints, as well as verbal complaints, despite a notice outside the exhibition warning of its explicit nature. The statue is one of 74 plaster models of people or objects that the 30-year-old artist says have been important to him.
Broadcaster appointed as Green strategist
MARK DOWD, the television producer who persuaded the Bishop of London to give up flying for a year, has been appointed the campaign strategist for Christian Ecology Link’s Operation Noah, a Christian campaign to counter climate change. Mr Dowd is a former Dominican friar. He advocates living simply as a way of giving a prophetic lead.
Stop eating battery hens and eggs, says CPA
CHRISTIANS should stop buying battery-reared chickens and eggs, the Christian Peoples Alliance Party said this week. It welcomed the EU’s refusal to delay the ban on battery cages until after 2012. “The Bible is emphatically on the side of animal welfare,” a spokeswoman said.