30 September 2026

Speaker The Revd Professor James Walters
Climate and Creation: Engaging faith communities in climate science
St Stephen’s Rochester Row

12.00-12.30: Arrival; Tea & biscuits
12.30: Eucharist (open to the public)
13.10: Lunch
14.00: Talk & discussion
15.00: Departure

Climate and Creation: Engaging faith communities in climate science
The parts of the world most impacted by climate change are simultaneously the most religious and those with the lowest levels of scientific education. This is not to say that such groups see religion and science as necessarily in tension. But the dominant framing of the climate emergency in technical scientific language alienates these populations from this issue which is acting them so profoundly and which they describe in their own more moral/theological language. Professor Walters will outline the work of his research unit in listening to these religious voices and drawing them more fully into the global climate conversation.

The Revd Professor James Walter
The Reverend Professor James Walters is the founding director of the Faith Centre at the London School of Economics. The centre works with LSE’s diverse student body and wider global publics fostering interfaith dialogue to address conflict and the challenges of the climate emergency. He was ordained in 2007, served his curacy in Hampstead in North London, and has been at the LSE since 2010. He is an honorary canon theologian at Chichester Cathedral.