Category: <span>Events</span>

Christian Eco-Spirituality: CRES Day 7th November 2026

Christian Eco-Spirituality CRES Day 7th November 2026 Our next CRES in-person day (open to all) is on Saturday 7th November 2026 at Ripon College Cuddesdon (RCC) near Oxford. Our speaker will be Rev. Dr. Robin Parry, author of Christian Eco-Spirituality: An Outline (2025). This will be a day where we will explore both the more theoretical aspects of Christian Eco-Spirituality and how to put this into practice.  More details and the booking procedure can be …

COP26: the Science, the Policy, and the Theology

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 …

God’s Family and Other Animals

Saturday 16th November 2019- A day conference at Ripon College Cuddesdon with Rev Dr Dave Bookless and Rev Mia Smith We are very pleased to welcome Rev Dr Dave Bookless (A Rocha International) as our guest speaker for a day looking at environmental theology and mission, and entitled “God’s Family and Other Animals”. We will also have Rev Mia Smith (Hertford College, Oxford) with us to launch her recent Grove Booklet “The Plant-based Diet: A …

Rewilding- A Christian Perspective

Saturday 27th April 2019- Rewilding- A Christian Perspective. A day conference at Ripon College Cuddesdon with Rev Prof Andy Gosler, Dr John Bimson and Chris Naylor CRES and JRI will join together on 27th April 2019 to look at the topic of Rewilding. We are very pleased to welcome Rev Prof Andy Gosler (Oxford University), Dr John Bimson (formerly of Trinity College, Bristol) and Chris Naylor (A Rocha International) as our guest speakers. Andy and …

New Paper from the CRES Team

A number of those involved in running CRES have considerable publication records, and we have published everything from very popular works to highly academic tomes. But it is unusual for members of the CRES team to work together on an academic article. In October 2018 we published: ‘Creating an Ecological Citizenship’: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on The Role of Contemporary Environmental Education. This peer-reviewed journal paper is a result of a collaboration between Rev Dr …

Conservation, the Environment and Theology: Views from the Southern Hemisphere REPORT

Saturday 5th May 2018- Conservation, the Environment and Theology: Views from the Southern Hemisphere. CRES Day at Ripon College Cuddesdon with Rev Dr Selwyn Yeoman and Rev Dr Rachel Mash REPORT We had a wonderful and rather unusual CRES Day on Saturday 5th May 2018. Around 30 people assembled from all over England, including many of our students and their tutors. We also had a fair number of external people who had heard about the …