This week, we’ve started our Environment month – and being a month, it will run for four weeks, but this first week has been especially focused on environment for our CAT students as their lectures were all on creation care. We were glad to have Dr John Weaver of South Wales Baptist College with us for these lectures, and today the CATs shared some of their own reactions (very positive and enthusiastic – even more so than some other years) to what they’ve been exploring throughout the week. Some of those reactions are ‘postable’ in terms of format, so we thought you may enjoy them too. Here comes the first…
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Lake Baikal and its seals
For our yesterday’s EMPTy spot (a more or less weekly pausing to reflect on some aspect of creation care), we talked about the gift of water and watched this lovely video of the seals who live in the Lake Baikal – the oldest and deepest lake in the world. (I didn’t even know there were seals living in fresh water – turns out there are three types!) Folk in the Chapel clearly enjoyed it, so we thought those who are not on campus might too. – Lina
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ECEN at IBTS
IBTS is playing host to the European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN) this week as they hold their 8th Assembly. ECEN is a network which IBTS has been involved in for several years. Now it is our delight to welcome people here. There are about 75 delegates from most parts of Europe. Reflecting on the theme “Our Daily Bread: Living in a Time of Climate Change,” the Assembly has opted for a vegetarian diet – itself an unusual feature in central Europe, where meat is the main part of any diet and cooked vegetables, certainly, are an after thought. (In fact, when you go to a restaurant in Prague, you may…