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Creation

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In an effort to combat climate change, participants at the California-Nevada Summit on Fossil Fuel Divestment approved a resolution recommending halting fossil-fuel related investments. “We agree that fossil fuels continue to drive climate change and that their production and usage harms the planet, especially poor and minority communities and countries,” the statement reads. The resolution now goes before annual conference voters. Image by Ralf Vetterlem, courtesy of  Pixabay.

Conference moves toward fossil-fuel divestment

In an effort to combat climate change, participants at the California-Nevada Summit on Fossil Fuel Divestment approved a resolution that will now go before annual conference voters.
General Conference
Musa Dube, the distinguished professor of New Testament at the Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, preaches during a Vigil for Creation on April 22 to mark Earth Day. The gathering took place at First United Methodist Church of Charlotte on the day before the United Methodist General Conference began its work nearby. Photo by Paul Jeffrey, UM News.

Climate justice legislation fares well overall

General Conference delegates passed much of the legislation supported by United Methodist climate justice activists, but divestment from fossil fuel company stocks proved elusive.
Global Health
Children and youth show off the cake they received from visitors from Ambodifasika United Methodist Church in Faratanjona, Madagascar. The community faces food shortages due to climate change and other factors that have reduced crop production in the region. Photo by Esdras Rakotoarivony, UM News.

Church in Madagascar feeds hungry

United Methodists plant seeds of hope in a remote village facing food challenges.
Social Concerns
A field in rural Putnam County, Ohio, under cultivation. "You prepare their grain, for thus You prepare the earth," Psalm 65:9. Photo by Mike DuBose, United Methodist Communications.

Ask the UMC: Our Living World, Part 4: Land

Created last and taken from the dust of the earth itself, the first call of human beings is to co-inhabit our living world with all other life-forms. Our second call, to subdue the earth and have dominion over the animals, is in service to the first. United Methodists are committed to maintaining the biblical priority.

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