RESOURCES

COLUMBAN RESOURCES:

Reflecting on Mission
Columban Companions in Mission

Columban missionaries around the world reflect on various aspects of mission in short quotes and discussion questions covering each week of the year. Justice, Peace and Ecology feature prominently. Produced as part of the Companions in Mission programme. An ideal Christmas present, available from December. Ł3.00 inclusive of p&p from St. Columban's, Solihull, on 01564 772 096.

Coming in November 2006:
New book by Sean McDonagh:
GLOBAL WARMING - THE CHALLENGE TO ALL OF US
Published by Columba Press

OTHER:

Up in smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean
Working Group on Climate Change and Development
This is the third report of a coalition of development and environment agencies, including Columban Faith and Justice, concerned about the links between climate change and human development. It catalogues the impact of climate change and environmental degradation, ranging from drought in the Amazon to floods in Haiti; vanishing glaciers in Colombia to extreme cold in the Andes; and hurricanes, not only in Central America and the Caribbean, but also in southern Brazil. Across the region, the capacity of natural ecosystems to act as buffers against extreme weather events and other shocks is being undermined, leaving poor people more vulnerable.
Ł10.00 from New Econmics Foundation on 020 7820 6300 or www.neweconomics.org.

The Greening of Christianity
Lloyd Geering
Christianity burst into life 2000 years ago with a message of salvation for people then expecting an imminent end of the world and the return of Jesus Christ. Fundamentalists still await that. We now face an ecological crisis and Christianity has been blamed for contributing to it. Geering, a New Zealand-based Presbyterian minister, discusses some radical changes Christianity needs to undergo if it is to play a positive role in the salvation of humankind within this entirely new situation.
Ł5.75 post free from All Saints Vicarage, The Street, Gazeley, Newmarket, CB8 8RB.

There you go!
Survival International
This little cartoon book - a biting critique of how tribal peoples are being destroyed in the name of 'development' - is designed to be read in two minutes. With vivid drawings and wry humour, the book depicts two executives arriving in a remote tribal community and imposing a 'Multi-Stakeholder Cross-Disciplinary Integrated approach'. The effects are to leave the tribal people landless, squatting on the edge of a city. The launch of the book marks the start of a new Survival campaign to highlight how the concept of development is often used to justify the dispossession of tribal peoples.
Ł4.00 post free from http://www.survival-international.org/books.php or call 020 7687 8700.
It can be downloaded from Survival's website.

Reclaiming Time
Movement of Christian Workers
MCW members, friends and colleagues took part in an enquiry-survey on life and work in the 21st century. The report, which is the fruit of that survey, shows the