“Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political, or economic changes. […] Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” Martin Luther King Jr.
Fossil Free Faith, a collaborative project between Spirited Social Change and Faith & the Common Good, is excited to be launching a Youth Fellowship Program and online campaign.
We are looking for young people of faith interested in strengthening moral and faith-based calls for climate justice and fossil fuel divestment in Canada.
Are you interested? Or do you know someone who might be interested? I’d love for you to share the info below. You can also read more at: www.fossilfreefaith.ca/youth.
As you’ve probably heard me say before, I’m terrified by the climate crisis. And I’m so inspired by the youth-led social movements that have sprung up across the globe in response to it. As we await the Pope’s encyclical on climate, and the upcoming climate talks in Paris, and as more and more religious and secular institutions join the movement, now is the time to raise our own moral voices.
Thanks for the support. And for all you do on the issues that most light you up.
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Concerned about climate change?
Connected to a spiritual or faith community? 
Fossil Free Faith is looking for young people of faith* to become leaders in strengthening moral and faith-based calls for climate justice and fossil fuel divestment in Canada.
Our BC Youth Fellowship Program will become a multifaith network of organizers, activists, videographers, artists, writers and speakers. We will provide training and mentoring around climate issues, fossil fuel divestment and clean energy reinvestment, social movement organizing and communications, and will help create opportunities to raise and amplify your voice. Find out more and apply at: http://www.fossilfreefaith.ca/bc-youth
Elsewhere in Canada? Raise your voice online!
The BC program is a pilot project that we hope to replicate in other parts of the country. In the meantime, we are gathering voices of young faith-based climate activists across Canada to amplify online!
Share your story. Email us a photo of you, and a statement about why you’d like to see faith institutions divest from fossil fuels and reinvest in your future. Or follow us on Twitter, and find us on Facebook, and then share on social media with #faithinmyfuture.
Send emails of interest and questions to: christine (at) fossilfreefaith (dot) ca.
Find out more at: www.fossilfreefaith.ca/youth
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*What do we mean by “young people of faith”?
We mean people under the age of 32-ish who are active or inactive members of religious communities, or connected to a spiritual practice, or who don’t belong to anything at all. Who consider themselves religious, or spiritual, or agnostic. And who practice these things in all sorts of ways. We mean people who believe that our diverse spiritual and faith communities can be a force for good. We mean people who have faith in a better, cleaner, fairer, more just future. Quite possibly, we mean you.
