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The Disappearing Country

The Disappearing Country

May 14, 2011

With 80% of the country less than one metre above sea level, the residents of the Maldives’ 1,200 tropical islands have long been aware of their ­vulnerability to rising sea levels...

Saving Ethiopia’s “Church Forests”

Saving Ethiopia’s “Church Forests”

Mar 22, 2011

It is said that if a traveler in northern Ethiopia spies a forest, it surely has a church in the middle.

The Pain of the Earth: A Cry for Change

The Pain of the Earth: A Cry for Change

Apr 8, 2008

by Aidan Hart Theological Address at the Raubichi ECEN Assembly, 29 May 2001 I have been asked to speak today about a Christian theology of creation, or more specifically, the Orthodox Church’s theology of creation, and with particular reference to the pain of the earth. The various workshops we have had and will have during this assembly deal with the...