Richard A. Davis blogging
A brief note to remind readers of my paper on Luther and climate change in the Pacific, but with application elsewhere. Available here: ‘Climate Justice and God’s Justice in the Pacific: Climate Change Adaptation and Martin Luther’ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-67602-5_6 Abstract Climate change activism […]
preached at St Paul’s Hills Road, Cambridge Watch this online https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1288961155?t=0h37m15s Readings Deuteronomy 7:1-11 Hosea 4:1-3 Luke 5:1-11 Sermon Let us pray. Dear God, may these spoken words be faithful to the written word and lead us to the living Word, Jesus […]
With COP26 kicking off in Glasgow here are some of my writings of climate change (also click on the ‘climate change‘ tag for this blog. Davis, Richard A. 2015. ‘The Rainbow Covenant, Climate Change, and Noah’s Exile’. The Pacific Journal of Theology, […]
Here is Martin Luther making a point about the difference between the philosophical (read ‘scientific’) and theological understandings of the rainbow from Genesis 9:13: This sign [the rainbow] should remind us to give thanks to God. For as often as the rainbow […]
Readings for Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost: Isaiah 65:17-25 Isaiah 12 Malachi 4:1-2a Psalm 98 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19 In two weeks time we begin the Christian season of Advent. This season is when Christians prepare for the arrival of their […]
I have been invited to deliver a conference paper at the triennial consultation of the Global Network for Public Theology in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The conference dates are 24-26 October 2016. The theme of their meeting is “Democracy and Social Justice in […]
I have recently published or given three papers on climate change in the Pacific. They are collected here for your convenience: “The Rainbow Covenant, Climate Change, and Noah’s Exile,” The Pacific Journal of Theology Series II, 54 (2015): 37–44. [read PDF] “The […]
Dr. Richard A. Davis, PTC Faculty Reading — Isaiah 24:3-6 (NRSV) 3 The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled; for the LORD has spoken this word. 4 The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers; the […]
Preached by Dr Richard A. Davis at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Suva, Fiji Islands (22 February 2015) Reading: Genesis 9:8-17 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, “As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and […]
There is a forthcoming conference on “The Ethics of Climate Change” to be held in Oxford. Here is the advance reading list. Sadly I’m not going to the conference myself. It sponsored by The Tablet & The Pastoral Review I. The Science […]