Dear Friends,
Lent’s reflections on sin and brokenness will soon give way to Easter’s season of hope and new life. In keeping with that, after Easter, our home groups (plus an extra open group on Thursday evenings) will be running a 5-week Carbon Literacy Course for Congregations.
Supported by the Diocese the course aims to empower Christians to understand and take action around climate change, recognising the consequences of our actions and directing us towards hope.
Over the weeks we’ll be exploring what carbon literacy means; we’ll measure our own personal carbon footprints and explore what we can do to reduce them. The course will begin with several screenings of a film by David Attenborough in the week commencing 13th April within the Home Groups. I’ll be running an additional screening within the church on Thursday 16th at 7pm. Please do join in!
If you’d like to know more about the course see here: https://carbonliteracy.com/faith/
Language around ‘Net Zero’ threatens to become a political football. In hosting the course, however, we will be seeking to take responsibility for our actions and to rediscover empowering hope. Aren’t those the two themes of Lent and Easter?
Revd Dr Mark Laynesmith
Vicar of St Nicolas, Earley
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