Speaking as one

It doesn’t hurt when groups get together. Three of the major Christian groups recently delivered a joint statement.

On September 1, Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and Archbishop Justin Welby released “A Joint Message for the Protection of Creation.” This is the first time that a joint statement has been released by the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion.

And recently more than 200 of the world's leading medical and health journals issued an unusual joint statement calling climate change the biggest threat to public health, not the pandemic. You can read that article here.

In a world where so often we see groups competing with one another, it is good to see plenty of evidence that some things are important to say together.

The statement hopes to urge climate action ahead of the United Nations climate conference, COP26, in early November. For more, read articles from The Episcopal Church, NPR, and EarthBeat