Revd Dr John Reader (1953-2023) John Reader died on Sunday 1st October 2023 after a short illness. He was a husband, father, grandfather, country vicar, academic, philosopher, theologian, and was passionate about environmental issues. I am sure that there will be many appreciations of his life and work, and there is already one by Chris Baker of the William Temple Foundation, one of the organisations John was most associated with (HERE). John was a superb …
We are pleased to announce a new module, “Living Sustainably”, is now available for CRES students to take. Written by David Gould, it is based on two convictions: 1. We cannot live sustainably if we neglect the care of creation. We must live ‘ecologically’, caring for the whole Earth, our ‘oikos’/ house – the land, air, and seas and all their life forms – not just people. 2. As Christians we have a particular calling …
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 …
We are grateful to Revd. Dr. John Reader who has produced a new and ground-breaking module on Ecology, Technology, and Theology. This builds on an earlier publication from the William Temple Foundation on the Digital and the Environmental. At a time when environmental issues are high on the churches’ agenda notably with the Net Zero Carbon target of 2030, the module will enable students to understand how our dependence upon digital technologies has both detrimental …
For the first time since 2019, the CRES Residential was able to go ahead at Cuddesdon. With people being able to gather together again, it is perhaps no surprise that the theme of community seemed to run through the two days, as we reflected, prayed, ate, walked, and talked together. The Friday afternoon field trip was to the Earth Trust, an Oxfordshire-based environmental learning charity. We started the trip inside their new ‘Earth Lab’ building, …
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 …
