Yesterday started the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. W Leaders come together to discuss how the governments can approach a new treaty to combat climate damaging pollution.

At the Lutheran World Federation, we discussed how we can talk about the climate change from a theological perspective. That is very necessary because it is very likely that the changes of the global climate conditions - that are at least in part are caused by human activity - will affect many people greatly. Even in the most optimistic scenarios, certain small islands will disappear. The details are laid out in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

But quite obviously, this not just a question of science. The weather has all along been linked to God. A few of the questions many people are raising: (more…)