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Sunday Worship: Our Common Home

Our Common Home

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Martin Palmer explores how faith can partner with conservation movements.

Martin Palmer explores how faith can partner with conservation movements in protecting what Pope Francis calls 'Our Common Home'.

"If you believe in God…then you should feel a responsibility to care for His Creation" (the Duke of Edinburgh). This insight led Prince Philip as International President of the World Wide Fund for Nature to invite today's service leader Martin Palmer, to help him bring together in Assisi, Italy, the birth place of St Francis, for the first time in 1986, five of the world’s major faiths and key environmental organisations to explore how the faiths could become partners with the conservation movements in protecting what Pope Francis calls “our Common Home”. Now a member of the Pope's Covid Commission and CEO of FaithInvest, a new organisation that helps faiths invest in a values-based environment, in this morning's service Martin looks at the spirituality of place, the sacredness of nature, and at the place of humanity in God's creation. He's joined in the 4th century church of St Martin's North Stoke, Somerset, by Indian writer, poet, and opera writer Sangita Lakhanpaul. The preacher is Lorna Gold, Chair of the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM) and also a member of the Pope’s Covid Commission. The programme draws on insights from major world faiths, but is grounded in the Christian hope of renewal and regeneration with readings from Exodus 3, Psalm148, and Colossians chapter 1. Producer: Andrew Earis.

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