CRES (Christian Rural and Environmental Studies) is a distance learning course usually taken over two years. If you are interested probably the best place to look first is our CRES Certificate page. Then you might have some questions. If that is the case try our Frequently Asked Questions page first! If you still have questions then Contact Us. Then finally if you would like to apply download an Application Form and send it back to us …
Module 1: The Living World is our first compulsory module that was first written by the late Dena Burne and Dr. John McKeown back in the early 2000s. So it has been taken by generations of CRES students, and it has always been very popular. As most of the module concerns Biblical Studies it does not date that much. But although we had done a few minor updates before, by now it was in need …
ONLY FIVE PLACES AVAILABLE BOOK NOW!! At last! CRES will meet again in person on Saturday, October 30th, 2021 (10-4) at Ripon College Cuddesdon. As it happens our meeting is just before COP26 begins so we simply had to look at this topic. We have put a limit of 30 on this day, and 25 of those places are filled by CRES students and tutors. So the first five people who contact us and book …
For the second year in a row, we have held our annual CRES Residential online. This year we consulted with our students and tutors and an overwhelming majority preferred this mode because of the ongoing pandemic. CRES administrator, Lynda McKeown, handled all of the bookings, and in the end about 40 people came. We decided to scale back the meeting to the essential things to keep the course running. In this case, it was allowing …
At the CRES Steering Group held on the 21st June 2021, we took the decision to pause new admissions until 1st January 2022. We are very sorry to have to do this, but we are an almost entirely volunteer-led course, and we have had quite unprecedented demand over the last few months. We now have 40 students which is well above where we have ever been before. In fairness to those students, and to give …
We are pleased to announce that Ji Young Jung from South Korea, who graduated from the CRES Certificate course in 2019 has published a version of her dissertation work in the Korean Journal “Theology and Society“. The abstract is below, and the paper is in English. The Issues of Environmental Official Development Assistance and a Christian Missiological Response Environmental problem has been a crucial agenda in the discussion of international development. There has been a …
