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Download Complete Issue The magazine of Green Christian Spring 2020 Issue 89 Price £4.50 the magazine What’s in your river? Audacious living in Amazonia Zero-Carbon Church: hope or hype? Requiem for Lost Species ©2020 Green Christian GreenChristian EDITORIAL from the Amazon to the Medway, from “What’s in your river?” zero-carbon church building, to campaigning to keep fossil fuels in the asks Clare Redfern ground. Visit our website for more details of our vision, our activities and Several rivers are mentioned in this emotions, in response to environmental resources. issue. One is the humble Medway, a chaos, a theme also explored within the tribute of the Irwell, which then flows into Religion and Extinction network. In these pages, we introduce some new the Mersey in central Manchester; this is volunteers: besides Graham Norman the where Cecilia Madupin went pond Throughout the Bible from Genesis to Arts Convenor, Emma King has taken on dipping. Using the organisms collected Revelation, in the psalms and gospels, the role of Prayer Guide compiler and our she shared these treasures – waterfleas, rivers speak of life, abundance and new co-chaplains, Andrew Norman and damselfly nymphs, snails – at a Church healing, which is unsurprising in a land of Gina Hoff say hello. Sadly, we also say Fun Day, awakening appreciation and dry deserts and scorching heat. A river goodbye to Edward Echlin, a dear friend, concern for “all the wondrous things that watered the garden of Eden and Psalm and long-standing member, of Green fly, swim, walk or crawl” (see book 46 talks of “a river whose streams make Christian. His life embodied vision, reviews, p23), even in an inner city. glad the city of God”. In the book of grace and deep faith, and a conversation Revelation a similar river waters 12 with him was always full of Another is the mighty Amazon. Kathy trees, whose leaves bring healing for the encouragement. Galloway, from the Iona Community, nations. Surely this is a river of justice describes the commitment of Amazonian and righteousness, as described by the “Let Justice roll like a river, and villagers to respect and cherish the local prophet Amos. And Jesus in John 4: 10- righteousness like a never-failing stream” forest ecosystem – important not only to 14, promises springs of living water to Amos 5:24 preserve their livelihoods and traditions, those who ask – the life-giving work of Clare Redfern, but also to enable the well-being of the the Holy Spirit. Commissioning whole planet. As Kathy puts it, these Editor people are “our defenders on the Inspired by a vision of Shalom, seeking environmental frontline”, as they hold out to work in the power of God’s Spirit, for against loggers, miners and ranchers in the healing of Creation is what we are protecting the trees, plants and animals about at Green Christian. Here we share that surround them. She describes a way just a few stories of challenge and hope, of life that is increasingly threatened, but which reflects the idea of “Shalom” – right and just relationships between all things, an “integral wholeness” as John Anderson describes it – bringing peace and well-being for all. Kathy calls us to lives of praise and political engagement but also to lament for a broken humanity and the global climate crisis; lament, which allows us to make explicit our heartbreak, anger and deepest longing. Rev Helen Burnett developed a special remembrance service to do just this. She describes how the “Requiem for Lost Species” was a means of reflection and healing that reached beyond the church community. Within GC, a new “Arts Convenor”, is also Photo Credit: CCA facilitating creative ways of expressing Members of Christian Climate Action at the 40 day Lenten Prayer Vigil outside Westminster (see GCNews) 2 greenchristian.org.uk Issue 89, Spring 2020 ©2020 Green Christian CONTENTS Green Christian Published by Green Christian Contents Editorial Team: GreenChristian Clare Redfern, Simon Court, Suzannah Brecknell T: 07906 454771 Welcome to Green Christian Issue 89 Spring 2020 E: [email protected] Book Review Editor: Tanya Jones FEATURES Prayer Editor: Revd Chris Walton Local Groups Contact: Isobel Murdoch 4 Requiem for Lost Species Submissions New rituals for remembering from Helen Burnett Contributions should ideally be made by e-mail as attached files. Alternatively clear typescript is 8 Edward Echlin 1930 -2019 acceptable when negotiated with the Editors. Paul Bodenham pays tribute P9 Accompanying photos and drawings are encouraged. An early email or phone call to the Commissioning Editor, Clare Redfern, to 9 Audacious living in Amazonia indicate an intention to write is very helpful. Kathy Galloway meets indigenous people on the Editorial Policy environmental frontline Green Christian is intended as a forum for Christians of all traditions to reflect on, and 12 Meet the GC Arts Convenor P14 contribute to, current thinking and action in the Graham Norman takes on this new role Green Movement. The opinions expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editors but are welcome for their 13 EnFolding the future sincerity and insight. Items mailed with Green John Anderson on a church building with vision Christian reflect the views of their authors or publishers and not necessarily those of Green 14 What’s in your river? P16 Christian. 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If you have not filled in a Response Holy Spirit for guidance through Flat 1, 31 St James Terrace, Form in recent years please the Scriptures, and seeking to Buxton SK17 6HS. let us know if you wish to hear Him in the challenges of the E:[email protected] present time. be put in touch with other members in your area. Green Christian is a registered trading name of Christian Ecology Link greenchristian.org.uk ©2020 Green Christian greenchristian.org.uk Issue 89, Spring 2020 3 FEATURE Requiem for Lost Species Helen Burnett describes new rituals for remembering every year as a special day, a day of “Remembrance for Lost Species” and invited people to discover new rituals for remembering and mourning. I was fascinated by the idea that during centuries of worship the complex web of life in this place had diminished as a direct result of human activity – so human activity had provided a sacred space whilst at the same time desecrating that space. How could this discrepancy between the beauty of human creativity, and the human capacity to destroy, be marked and mourned? Church path with tributes to lost species Photo Credit: H. Burnett The Seed of an Idea In 2016, as a Curate exploring the parish, offered to me for my first post, I found myself standing in a beautiful 11th century church, a place that had been prayed in for over 900 years. A sacred space almost certainly based on a pre- Christian plot where our ancestors had stopped to wonder, to praise and to plead. St Peter and St Paul’s Chaldon was to be my new home, and as I stood in the place that I was to come to know intimately, I carried with me the memory of someone I had never met, someone committed to the role of creativity and the arts in social and ecological regeneration: Persephone Pearl of the ONCA co-operative. She had designated November 30th Church interior with hanging lists of extinct species Photo Credit: H. 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