Two Optionsof Model Resolutions from Fossil Free UMCand the United Methodist Creation Justice Movementare below. These two model resolutions are focused on annual conferences studying about and/or …

This is a Model Annual Conference Resolution for 2026 calling on the United Methodist Church’s investment agency, Wespath, to add fossil fuels to its investment screens for all its portfolios…

COP 30 Ends with No Roadmap for a Phaseout of Fossil Fuels These days, “fossil fuels” seems to be as unspeakable as the other “f” word used to be, at least in official documents addressing climate …

On Saturday at COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, 50,000 people “celebrated the death of fossil fuels” outside the United Nations climate summit. The “Great People’s March” and makeshif…

November 2025 Newsletter: Worldwide Climate Response

As representatives of many nations and members of civil society from around the world prepare to gather for COP30 in Belen, the competing worldviews of various participants are clearly in view. Rep…

Photo by Paul Jeffrey. Used by permission. I’m grateful to be working with the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement (including Fossil Free UMC and the California-Nevada Climate Justice Minist…

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In this time of growing environmental and human rights urgency, the Coordinating Team of the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, with love and hope for people and creation, gathered to writ…

The World House Institute for Social and Ecological Responsibility invites you to participate in a four-week discussion on Bill McKibben's book, HERE COMES THE SUN: A LAST CHANCE FOR THE CLIMATE AND A...

Follow the Money, Not the Money Managers by Mark Davies The transformation of the world does not mean the destruction of the world or the destruction of a livable cimate for all life on earth. The …

Reprinted from Mark Davies’ Moral Clarity for a Fossil Free UMC – One World House – Mark Davies Living in Oklahoma most of my life, I have had a front row seat to watch how fossil fuel compan…

Often considered the godfather of the contemporary environmental movement, McKibben’s new book, “Here Comes the Sun,” argues that solar power is no longer an “alternative fuel” but has become the chea...

By the Reverend Christian DeMent, Pastor of La Mesa First United Methodist Church, on His Participation in California-Pacific Annual Conference’s Vote to Divest from Fossil Fuels I finally have som…

Rev. Paul Mitchell, co-chair of the Pacific Northwest Commission on Environmental Stewardship addresses the conference body at the PNW annual conference in ...

After the passage of the fossil fuel divestment resolution, the Cal-Nevada Creation Justice Task Force and Summit Planning Team gather to celebrate. Photo by restaurant staff, used with permission.…

“The core business of oil and gas companies is to extract, refine, and deliver oil and gas. Asking oil and gas companies to give up oil and gas is like asking United Methodists to stop worshi…

Earth Day is not simply about planting trees or recycling—although those actions have value. For people of faith, Earth Day is a sacred invitation. An invitation to reimagine our relationship with the...

This post is a Model Resolution on Fossil Fuel Divestment from Fossil Free UMC and the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, with a substitute resolution to present as an amendment or substit…

“We see a lot of churches moving their money.”  —Julia Frisbie, Executive Director of the Faith Foundation Northwest The February Café featuring Fossil Free ...

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 10 AM Pacific, 1 PM Eastern, 8 PM Palestine Presented by UMKR, MFSA, and Fossil Free UMC Chevron supports Israel's apartheid regime and its genocidal war against Palestini...

Watch the Recording Here. Fossil Fuel Divestment is the focus of this first Movement Cafe of 2025. This conversation connects the dots as to why divestment is an important tool to fight climate cha…

By Sharon Delgado Published in UM Creation Justice Movement’s February 2025 Newsletter “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:21). In the above passage, Jesus tel…

To find out more and to register, go to the original post at United Methodist Creation Justice Movement: Movement Cafe: Divestment with Fossil Free UMC. Join us February 19th for the first Movement…

by William (“Bill”) Myers and Kenneth Lynn Jobe Introduction How did the UMC get from its declared mission of discipleship of Jesus Christ, “to transform the world”, to cont…

By Jaydee Hanson The United Methodist Church cannot meet its net zero goals unless it diversifies from investments in fossil fuels. The net zero goals are targets that all of the agencies of the ch…

March 25-26, 2024 “Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness. Such investments will soon be stranded assets — a blot on the landscape and a blight on investment port…

“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:5). These are difficult times for people who seek peace, justice, and healin ...

by The Reverend Pat Watkins God told Adam to “till and keep” the garden, the first vocational call laid upon humanity that we know of.  God asked Noah to preserve all the animals that God had …

“We confess that the negative impacts resulting from the degradation of the natural world have fallen disproportionately on marginalized communities, including indigenous tribes, religious and ethn…

A Cobb and Friends Presentatiowith Sharon Delgado YouTube recording of Fossil Fuel Divestment as Climate Change Strategy, October 15, 2024. United Methodist preacher, author, and long-time climate …

Our faith demands us to act for a just clean energy future. Our mission: To build on the stated commitments of The United Methodist Church to faithfully address climate change. To act by screening …

Image by Laurie Bayen See the sign-on letter to world leaders below In 1992 I was part of the United Methodist delegation to Rio de Janeiro during the United Nations Conference on Environment and D…

It’s time to phase out fossil fuels! In this decade. Not just from our investments. I mean it’s time for us to start significantly reducing and phasing out fossil fuels now. I know this sounds almo…

As we move forward with Fossil Free UMC, I rejoice that a young seminary student named Spenser Ross is inspired and ready to put some time into these efforts. He and I met in June at the California…

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms....

Cobb and Friends Presentation with Sharon Delgado October 15, 10 am to 12 pm PST Register Here: Register Here: https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-10-15/ Fossil Fuel Divestme...

In our last Fossil Free UMC post, Fossil Fuels and Climate: Counting the Cost, we acknowledged the dilemma of trying to strategize about how best to address the climate crisis: “The world cannot keep ...

Fossil Fuels and Climate: Counting the Cost “For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?”   Luke 14:28 Whe...

“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness. Such investments will soon be stranded assets — a blot on the landscape and a blight on investment portfolios.”  UN Secretar...

Just and Free. Fossil Free UMC.

Fossil Free UMC is building on momentum achieved at General Conference! Every United Methodist in every Annual Conference has the opportunity, right now, to move forward with our mission to “faithfull...

We have a lot to celebrate from General Conference this year with huge steps forward to address climate justice, environmental urgency and netzero. We are breaking through! Fossil Free UMC has a renew...

News from General Conference

By Sharon Delgado and Mark Davies The Revised Social Principles passed at the recent General Conference, supported by Fossil Free UMC, the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, MFSA, the Love Yo...

by Rev Richenda Fairhurst For creation justice advocates, the work of decades found an exhilarating moment this week when, in literal moments on Tuesday mor ...