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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#999933" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040006e0ddwnfv.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Sage - Oxford's Christian Environmental Group</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B>     |    </B></FONT><B> </B><A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sage Oxfords Christian Environmental Gr"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="webelieve.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="We Believe"><U>We Believe</U></A>   |   <A HREF="contactus.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A>   |   <B>Resources</B>   |   <A HREF="news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A>   |   <A HREF="calendar.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Calendar"><U>Calendar</U></A>   |   <A HREF="relatedlinks.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U>Related Links</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" background="041bec00esnpes.png"> <div> <A HREF="bibstuds.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sage Bible Studies"><U><B>Sage Bible Studies</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="brown.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Brown Bible Studies"><U><B>Brown Studies</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="caringforcreation.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Caring for Creation"><U><B>Caring for Creation</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="sagewords.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sage Words"><U><B>Sage Words</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="relatedlinks_articles.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U><B>Articles</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="cres.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CRES"><U><B>CRES</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="redcliffe2004.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Christian perspectives on issues in the "><U><B>Christian perspectives on issues in the global environment.</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.jri.org.uk/brief/Jewish.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jri.org.uk/brief/Jewish.pdf"><U><B>Environmental Christianity: insights from our Jewish heritage</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0679e5c0.png" border=0 width="158" height="92" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Resources</B></div> <div> Over the fifteen years <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00CC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Sage</B></FONT> has been about we have produced quite a number of resources for our mailing list, small groups and churches. We have uploaded some of them here:</div> <div> 1) <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CC0066" FACE="Arial" ><B>BIBLE STUDIES</B></FONT>. We wrote a series of six <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="bibstuds.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sage Bible Studies"><U>Bible Studies</U></A></FONT> on environmental themes in the early 1990's. These have been revised (and a seventh has been added!) and are now available on this site- have a look! In 2006, Jennifer Brown, Curate of St. Clement's, Oxford, kindly provided us with a series of three studies- go to <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="brown.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Brown Bible Studies"><U>Brown Studies</U></A></FONT>. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><B>NEW</B></FONT> in 2007, a set of studies entitled <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="caringforcreation.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Caring for Creation"><U>Caring for Creation</U></A></FONT> to accompany the book <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.jri.org.uk/news/Climate_SustainableLiving_Flyer.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jri.org.uk/news/Climate_Susta"><U>"Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living"</U></A></FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >2) We also put up editions of our regular newsletter "</FONT><A HREF="sagewords.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sage Words"><U>Sage Words</U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >". If you would like to subscribe to the "Sage Words" printed version, or to join our email list to be notified when a new edition is uploaded, go to</FONT> <A HREF="contactus.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >.</FONT></div> <div> 3) Several Sage members are involved in a two year Certificate course in Christian Rural & Environmental Studies<B> </B>(<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="cres.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CRES"><U>CRES</U></A></FONT>), and we provide more details of this important development.</div> <div> 4) Martin & Margot Hodson from Sage took part in a one-day workshop on Saturday 17th January 2004 at Redcliffe College, Gloucester. "<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" ><B>Christian perspectives on issues in the global environment" </B></FONT>was organised by <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.jri.org.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jri.org.uk"><U>The John Ray Initiative</U></A></FONT> (JRI). The resources from the Hodson's talks are available at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="redcliffe2004.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Christian perspectives on issues in the "><U>Christian perspectives on issues in the global environment.</U></A></FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >5) See Margot Hodson's JRI briefing </FONT><A HREF="http://www.jri.org.uk/brief/Jewish.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jri.org.uk/brief/Jewish.pdf"><U>Environmental Christianity: insights from our Jewish heritage</U></A> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#003300" FACE="Arial" > (you will need Acrobat reader installed to view this link).</FONT></div> <div> 6) <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >The</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.oxford.anglican.org/door/index.php?c=51" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.oxford.anglican.org/door/inde"><U>Eco-column</U></A></FONT> articles in the Diocese of Oxford newspaper The Door are well worth reading, as are those in the "Just World" section of the Board of Social Responsibility pages. You can now access them all directly from the Sage site! Go to <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="relatedlinks_articles.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U>Articles</U></A></FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#003300" FACE="Arial" >7) </FONT>Jennifer Brown, Curate of St. Clement's, Oxford, has kindly provided us with guidelines for an <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="prayerwalk.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Experiencing creation prayer walk"><U>Experiencing creation prayer walk</U></A></FONT> Try it!</div> <div> 8)<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="envtheology.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Place of Environmental Theology"><U>The Place of Environmental Theology</U></A></FONT>: A guide for seminaries, colleges and universities (2007). A new book edited by John Weaver and Margot R. Hodson and published jointly by the Whitley Trust, UK and the International Baptist Theological Seminary (IBTS), Prague, Czech Republic. </div> <bR> <div> Come back soon, and more resources will be found here!</div> </td> </tr></table></body>