Tag: Rewild the Church

  • The Archbishop’s Response to Wild Card

    The Archbishop’s Response to Wild Card

    By Wild Card

    On the very day we marched to St Paul’s Cathedral, Archbishop Justin Welby issued this statement. We at Wild Card applaud the Archbishop’s clear and positive response to our campaign calling for 30% of Church land to be rewilded by 2030. We’re delighted that he “welcomes the initiative” and shares our concerns around biodiversity decline.…

  • Rewilding Christian Approaches to Ecological Issues

    Rewilding Christian Approaches to Ecological Issues

    By Peter Atkins

    The Christian tradition has often taken one particular biblical text as its guide for tackling ecological issues: Genesis 1:28. This passage’s divine instruction states that humans should “fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that…

  • Chris Packham challenges the Archbishop of Canterbury to stop failing nature and rewild the church’s vast estate

    Chris Packham challenges the Archbishop of Canterbury to stop failing nature and rewild the church’s vast estate

    Chris Packham today demanded that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church of England “practise what they preach” and protect nature by committing to rewilding 30% of their 105,000 acre estate by 2030.

  • Christian Climate Action’s response to the Rewild the Church campaign

    Christian Climate Action’s response to the Rewild the Church campaign

    By Christian Climate Action

    The creation accounts in the book of Genesis contain profound teachings about how human life is grounded in three fundamental and closely intertwined relationships: with God, and with our neighbour,  and also with the earth itself.

  • The Church Commissioners: The UK’s silent landlords

    The Church Commissioners: The UK’s silent landlords

    By Jonny Venvell

    The Church of England, often viewed as a gentle symbol of English tradition and spirituality, is also one of the largest landowners in the UK, with over 105,000 acres managed by the Church Commissioners.

  • Introducing – Rewild the Church!

    Introducing – Rewild the Church!

    When you think of the Church of England you imagine quaint church yards and ivy covered church walls. However, the Church is one of the UK’s biggest institutional land owners, managing the majority of their land for profit, not nature. 

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