Lambeth Call for the Communion Forest

In one of their finer moments, the Bishop’s at the 2022 Lambeth Conference pledged to support the “Communion Forest” as an environmental initiative across the Anglican Communion. Each diocese represented will define how best to implement this but it explicitly includes woodlands, grasslands, meadows, wetlands and coastal habitats.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, even considered the possibility of the Communion Forest becoming the “most widespread and diverse” environmental project in the world.

Maybe we could be a part of that vision.

In another call, the Bishops agreed that “The perception of a rift between science and religion should be laid to rest across the Anglican Communion”.

With science and faith backing us, what possible reason could there be for not defeating climate change and bringing equity, justice and health to an ailing world.

It starts (as all good stories do) in the beguiling, tiny Parish of St. Benedict Episcopal Church.