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Are we doomed?
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Are we doomed?

Simon Marsh
Simon Marsh
Date posted: 1 Dec 2023

‘We’re doomed’, a catchphrase familiar to viewers of Dad’s Army, might have been Private Frazer’s reaction to the recent State of Nature 2023 report, the first for four years.

It’s a comprehensive analysis of trends in wildlife abundance and distribution in the UK, produced by more than 50 nature conservation organisations.

Forty years of The Rock
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Forty years of The Rock

Simon Marsh
Simon Marsh
Date posted: 1 Nov 2023

Forty years ago, in southern Portugal, an unlikely new Christian venture began. Two Christian couples from the UK founded a centre in an old farmhouse in the Algarve to put into practice the Christian call to care for creation.

Nobody had done anything like it before. A Rocha (Portuguese for ‘The Rock’) is a welcoming, cross-cultural Christian community with a focus on science and research, practical conservation and environmental education. You can read the full story in Peter Harris’ Under the Bright Wings, which inspired me to visit in the 1990s and remain involved ever since.

Nature in lockdown!
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Nature in lockdown!

Simon Marsh
Simon Marsh
Date posted: 1 Sep 2020

How has lockdown been for you? The coronavirus pandemic has affected virtually every aspect of our lives. Christians have rightly spent much time discussing when and how we will be able to meet face-to-face again for worship.

While most of us were stuck at home though, many people had a renewed appreciation of the nature all around us. In the absence of traffic noise, we noticed how loud the birdsong is. Our local parks and green spaces took on a new importance for our daily exercise. At the end of every working day my wife and I would walk through the meadows near our house, enjoying the beauty of creation in a way that perhaps we didn’t before.

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