by Margot Hodson | Apr 21, 2020 | Opinion
I am writing this over Easter weekend in a “lockdown” COVID-19 Britain. I am a church pastor, but our churches are closed, and our services are on the internet. It is an important time to reflect on how to be more caring to God’s creation, not least because the...
by Margot Hodson | Dec 11, 2019 | Opinion
From late November until early January, Christians celebrate a major festival season of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. What are the environmental dimensions to these festivals? Christians are increasingly concerned about the environmental damage of consumerism in the...
by Martin J. Hodson and Margot R. Hodson | Oct 20, 2017 | Opinion
Following the launch of John Reader’s latest book, “Theology and New Materialism,” at Trinity College, Oxford, a group of the attendees continued to meet occasionally at the college to discuss some of the issues arising from the book, funded by the...
by Martin J. Hodson and Margot R. Hodson | May 24, 2017 | Opinion
How do environmental ethics work out in practice in Christian contexts? We can often see tension between caring for the environment and focusing on human concerns. In the past, environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) would not focus on human problems, while...
by Martin J. Hodson and Margot R. Hodson | May 23, 2017 | Opinion
In 1967, Lynn White proposed that the roots of our contemporary ecological crisis lay with the concept of dominion found in Genesis, and that Western technological development and approach to nature has been based on a concept that humans are separate from nature,...
