Dec 6, 2016 | Animal Justice, Earth Keepers, Faith Leaders, Green Bishop
Fishermen and farmers are acutely aware of their dependence on nature and her seasons. People who cast their lines and till the soil have a deep understanding of the meaning of God’s grace because they work so close to the elements. Late on the last Sunday of...
Sep 7, 2016 | Eco-congregation, Faith Leaders, Green Bishop, Special Environmental Days
By Bishop Geoff Davies, the Green Bishop I am thrilled that we are marking a Season of Creation and that Pope Francis has supported it so strongly. Caring for creation is not just another moral issue. It is fundamental. At the Global Anglican Congress on the...
Apr 18, 2016 | Eco-congregation, Faith Leaders, Green Bishop, Press
The Archbishop of Canterbury has given an award to a South African Bishop for encouraging the Church to embrace ecological issues. For more than forty years Bishop Geoff Davies, known to many as ‘The Green Bishop’, has been urging his Anglican Church, and now all...
Mar 2, 2016 | Green Bishop, SAFCEI announcement
We would like to share with you the wonderful news that the Green Bishop has been awarded the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Langton Award for Community Service. The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby will confer this Award to the Right Reverend Geoff Davies...
Nov 30, 2015 | Climate Change, Energy Justice, Environmental Advocacy
SAFCEI joined the very successful #CapeClimateMarch yesterday, which took place in the city centre of Cape Town. Together with our faith leader puppets we marched in the heat – which was quite apt, considering why we were marching – to parliament where a...
