Simpler Living Creation Care Ministry:
Following last week’s UN Oceans Conference, a delegation of 80 faith-based organizations sent a collaborative declaration to the United Nations Environment Program.
The declaration was informed by Indigenous Anglicans from the Pacific “…[who] have inspired others to rethink their relationship with the ocean – understanding it as water of life and hope, the lungs our our world – and to rethink [our] consumption and emission patterns that pollute it.”
Members included the Anglican Communion’s UN representative Rev. Glenn Ruffle. He said, “As we move forward from UNOC3, we have to start living as real followers of Jesus – and it will cost us. The convenient flights, the plastic bottles, the shares in oil, the lack of interest in far-off sinking islands – these things have to end. Instead, we need to be marked by our radical love for our neighbors, near and far, and be willing to carry their suffering with them, united in caring for the oceans that sustain us all.”
