The Christmas message is supposed to be "good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people." How, though, is this credible amidst such encircling economic and eco-gloom?

The Copenhagen Conference has ended somewhat inconclusively. The prospect of a binding and ambitious agreement on reducing carbon emissions seems itself to have been reduced to a prelude for further negotiations. How the human race is collectively to face the reality of climate change in the 21st century remains troublingly unclear.

Yet the decisive action that Copenhagen had promised, but ultimately has failed to deliver, cannot be avoided forever. The Christian community is being recalled by this crisis to a more genuinely Biblical view of creation and our place within it. It is clear that the effects of climate change will be felt first by some of the most vulnerable communities in the world and those least able to bear the costs of adaptation....

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1. Pageantmaster [KJS to Coventry] wrote: ....and is there any good news at Christmas for mankind do you think Bishop? December 30, 10:20 am | [comment link]

2. evan miller wrote: Personally, I think the failure of the Copenhagen meeting to come up with anything conclusive was marvelous news for mankind. December 30, 12:29 pm | [comment link]

3. Katherine wrote: What I think is that the negative effects on the economies of the world caused by the failed Copenhagen proposals, if they had been adopted and implemented, would have devastated the world’s poor long before climate change will. December 30, 2:40 pm | [comment link]

4. Intercessor wrote: Cannot wait to hear his Easter message of joy through salvation delivered by Christ. Intercessor December 30, 3:46 pm | [comment link]

5. azusa wrote: #4 I cannot wait either, so I won’t. December 31, 6:16 am | [comment link]

6. dwstroudmd+ wrote: Poor bishop’s stuck in a bad science warp!  He should have held out for the New Year POLITICAL MESSAGE and he could have written a different sermon!  Only, of course, if facts actually matter rather than mythology.  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm This would make Copenhagen’s failure good news for the poor!  Climatologically, that is. December 31, 4:36 pm | [comment link]

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