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Moderator Mardi Tindal's blog: What a week!

With you, I continue to pray and act from a deep sense of relationship with the people of Haiti. It’s also been a week of responding to enthusiastic (mostly) response to my letter, “Where Is the Hope after Copenhagen?” within media interviews, correspondence, and conversation.



The leader of the United Church calls climate change "one of the most urgent moral challenges". What do you think?

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Moderator Mardi Tindal's Open Letter: Where is the hope after Copenhagen?

The Moderator of The United Church of Canada, Mardi Tindal, is sharing an open letter to Canadians on the results of the Copenhagen climate change talks and the hope for the future. We invite you to take a look at it and join the conversation. -- Aaron (Admin2)
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Let's talk about the letter: Where is the Hope after Copenhagen?

 

This morning leaders in about 250 other congregations (as far as we know now) will join me in reading my open letter to Canadians entitled ‘Where is the Hope after Copenhagen?’ 
 
Although it is written to all Canadians, I will introduce it from the pulpit, as I expect others will also, with additional context from our Christian faith. Our faith sustains and guides us in times of pain and paralysis, whether it be the seeming intractability of long term issues like climate change, or the shock of natural disaster. This week, in particular, we continue to respond with prayer and action for the people of Haiti.
 
I hope for lots of response to my letter - some may be enthusiastic; some not so. Will you please delve in and add your voice to conversation about it here?


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Moderator Mardi Tindal's blog: Where is the hope after Copenhagen?

You may have heard about the letter by this title that I have written as an open letter to all Canadians, to be read in pulpits across the United Church this Sunday (January 17th) and personally delivered to the Governor General, the Prime Minister, and other party leaders on Jan. 18th. Others, including all parliamentarians, will also receive it.



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Moderator Mardi Tindal's blog: Disappointment and inspiration

My last message from Copenhagen was over a week ago. Daily blogs were planned to end on December 18th, but it’s time to renew my regular (normally weekly) correspondence.



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Lesson No. 1, from Copenhagen's Failure

Well, the predictable happened.

The world worked up its hopes that its primary institutions would do the responsible thing and stop the threat of destruction of our beloved civilization.

It failed.  Did we have to go to political science and history classes to see it coming?  The nature of the beast, shown to us repeatedly over the centuries, but we lived in 'hope' that the beast was something that it is not.

An illusion squashed by its own demonstration.  We are so disappointed our hope turned from illusion to its actual reality.



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COP15 Day 11: Becoming the children of God

Bleached coral from the Pacific Ocean was the most eloquent voice in Copenhagen this week (during the Ecumenical Celebration for Creation), accompanied by glacier stones from Greenland, dried up maize from Africa, remarkable faith leaders from around the world, and words of scripture, “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God” (Rom. 8:19).



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COP15 Day 10: Whole earth peace and justice

You may have seen my tweet from last night’s gathering of Canadians here in Copenhagen. It was a great time of talking with people from across Canadian organizations and perspectives: political, social, economic, and religious. Yesterday I reported about provincial politicians’ comments about the church being here, and last night that message was echoed by more politicians, activists, journalists, and others across generations.


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