Is real change possible? That, for those who watch closely our heating world, is the crucial question. If we’re to avoid the worst effects of climate breakdown, we need actual real change.
Or to bring it into the Biblical narrative, if we’re to fulfil our first calling to rule and care for all creation as God’s agents, we’ll need actual real change. It sounds obvious but it’s not always easy to see.
A couple of years ago, I was running a Lent course for several churches in our south-east London suburb on the flourishing of creation. It was in week four that one of the participants had a light-bulb moment. She’s Biblically-minded, a church warden, active in her congregation’s eco-church team, and runs the church’s community outreach café. But, in the group discussion, she suddenly said: “I hadn’t really seen it before, but if we say we’re stewards of God’s creation, we have to make actual changes to our lives.” Saying we’re stewards is one thing, but being stewards – good stewards, that is – is another.
