Borrowed Time

Journeying together through climate grief

Lent Course: ‘Calling a Wounded Earth Home’.

Green Christian is offering two versions of a 5-week Lent Course, “Calling a Wounded Planet Home”, for churches to use in 2025. Inspired by Green Christian’s Deep Waters Course, it asks “What kind of people might we need to be to face the challenges of climate change?”

Here is a space to go deeper together, and a space of contemplation that can resource meaningful action.

Covering topics of Love, Truth, Wisdom, Justice and Hope, this course uses music, prayer and Bible texts to inform reflection and discussion on creation care and the climate crisis, with the potential for positive and grounded outcomes for both community and church. It is discussion based with little input “from the front”, trusting that there is expertise, experience and faith enough in the room. 

As with all Green Christian resources, we strongly encourage a culture of respect, generosity and confidentiality. There are no easy answers, and it is good to journey together in mutual support and encouragement. 

– Version 1 uses YouTube music for opening and closing worship.
– Version 2 has been designed to be more accessible for some churches, particularly in rural locations which may not have ready access to internet sources for worship or whose congregations may not wish to use them. So, worship takes the form of Taize, sung in person. There have also been some small changes to readings and questions, drawing them from the Deep Waters programme, and a short silence slot for reflection is included after the readings.

You can download the materials for the Lent Course Version 1  here and for Version 2 here.

You should find that the links in the pdf document take you to the additional resources – but if you have any difficulty with these, please email Cat Jenkins on catjenkins@greenchristian.org.uk , and she’ll do her best to help.