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 …
For many years now in early September, we have held our annual CRES Residential. Because of the pandemic, this was not practicable, and we opted for a virtual option. Once again we were very grateful to CRES tutor, Ian Brooks for running our virtual meeting so effectively. We also thank Lynda McKeown for handling all of the bookings, and in the end about 35 people came. We decided to scale back the meeting to the …
We are very pleased to announce that Professor Celia Deane-Drummond will be our new external examiner from September 2020 when Professor John Bryant retires from the post. Celia is now Senior Research Fellow and Director of Laudato Si’ Research Institute, based at Campion Hall in Oxford University, UK. She has doctorates in both plant physiology and theology. Celia has many publications at the interface of ecology, science and faith. We look forward to working with …
We have been busy! This year so far we have revised three of our modules. Module 6: The Biological Environment was originally written by the late Prof. R.J. (Sam) Berry, and was revised by Godfrey Armitage. Module 9: Theologies of the Relationship between Humanity, Nature and God was totally rewritten by Dr Rachel Bathurst Module 11: An Introduction to Biodiversity was originally written by Andy Lester and Holly Petersen and was revised by Andy Lester …
If it were not for the coronavirus lockdown we would have held an entire day at Ripon College Cuddesdon, near Oxford, on Saturday 18th April. When it was obvious that the day would have to be cancelled we thought that was all there was to it. But then CRES tutor, Ian Brooks, suggested that he might be able to run it virtually for us. We are very grateful to Ian for doing this, particularly at …
