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Nick Read: 12/01/2018

As Vice Chair of the Herefordshire Local Nature Partnership (LNP) I've been involved in helping to set up the Marches Nature Partnership, which brings together both Herefordshire and the Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNPs. The idea is that this umbrella group will be in a better position to...

New chaplains commissioned

Nick Read: 05/10/2017

Borderlands Rural Chaplaincy (BRC) has added new chaplains to its team. A licensing service conducted by Honorary Assistant Bishop Michael Bourke at Church Stretton Methodist Church brought an additional eight chaplains to the team of five, which was commissioned in 2015. Revd. Jon Chesworth and...

Butty Van initiative

Nick Read: 05/10/2017

The launch of the Borderlands Butty Van at Oakwood Farm, Longville, brought around thirty farmers together for breakfast and an introduction to the rural chaplaincy. Butty Van chaplains Virginia Clements and Samantha Campbell, team leader David Gwatkin and fellow chaplain David Dutton were assisted...

New Chaplains

Nick Read: 20/07/2017

Borderlands Rural Chaplaincy invite you to the licensing of new...

Wrestling with climate change

Nick Read: 09/07/2017

If you are wrestling with the theology of Climate Change, watch Chaplain Nick Read break it down into thought provoking nuggets herebit.ly/NickReadClimatBorderlands Rural Chaplaincy is committed to raising awareness of the issues surrounding Climate Change. Notes to accompany this talk, which...

Climate change theology Talk 5

Nick Read: 28/05/2017

The Theology of Climate Change 5. ResourcesThe final talk of the series was a summing up and an open discussion in response to the theology.The following list of resources is by no means exhaustive, but represents some of the key organisations and writers that have been quoted in the talks...

Climate change theology Talk 4

Nick Read: 26/05/2017

Theology of Climate Change 4. RelationshipsTrinity and relational theologyThe Christian understanding is that God is Trinity. Theology begins with the premise that we can only know about God what God chooses to reveal to us. The Biblical narrative of Jesus' baptism in the Jordan...

Climate change theology Talk 3

Nick Read: 18/05/2017

Theology of Climate Change 3. Scoping the problemHuman activity has led to significant increases in Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, which have changed the earth's energy balance. As a result, average global temperatures are rising and this is leading to climate change. Paul Crutzen, a Nobel...

Are we all in denial

Nick Read: 17/05/2017

As I write the future of American involvement in the Paris Agreement on climate change hangs in the balance. If Trump pulls the US out it will join Nicaragua and Syria as the only countries in the world that have failed to sign and ratify the accord.Trump himself has been unambiguously opposed to...

Climate change theology Talk 2

Nick Read: 16/05/2017

The Theology of Climate Change — 2. The PoliticsAssessing the impacts of global warmingThere is a great deal of work trying to assess how the changes in the climate system will impact on society. This is not easy to accurately predict though there are obvious ramifications from sea level rise...

Let the seasons speak

Nick Read: 11/05/2017

The Medieval Church in Europe aligned the church's liturgical year with the seasons. Four of the great Festivals, referred to as the "Quarter Days", were explicitly linked to the Equinoxes, when the sun crosses the celestial equator and day and night are of equal length or the...

Climate change theology Talk 1

Nick Read: 11/05/2017

The Theology of Climate Change — 1. The ScienceThe Earth's Energy Balance and the Greenhouse EffectThe sun radiates energy as electromagnetic radiation. Generally, the hotter something is the shorter the wavelength of the energy radiated. The energy that reaches the earth is equivalent to...

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