Soil

Translated title of the contribution: Churches and leaseholds
Increasingly, the question is being asked whether, given ecological trends such as declining biodiversity, environmental pollution and climate change, churches should not make efforts to have their farmland managed in a sustainable manner.

Attitude, behaviour and willingness to change among religious and non-religious Dutch citizens in relation to climate change.

Translated title of the contribution: Between sustainable thinking and sustainable doing
In the study “Between sustainable thinking and sustainable doing”, SCP and PThU investigated what people are willing to sacrifice for the climate. They also looked specifically at the role of values and religion in people's considerations and willingness to change their lifestyles for the first time.

Translated title of the contribution: PThUnie - Soil | April 2024

Translated title of the contribution: Interview Thijs Tromp: Land of the (green) church; economically, socially and ecologically valuable!

Translated title of the contribution: Podcast Sacred Ground #47 - How are faith and ground connected?
How are we as humans connected to the earth we live on? Today, we face major issues that directly touch or arise from our dealings with land. For example, when it comes to food production, transport, consumption, climate change... A gap often becomes visible between theological thinking on such issues and the choices Christians make in practice. Guests in this episode are Mirella Klomp and David Onnekink, who in their research projects strive to make and strengthen precisely that connection between practices and faith in a very concrete way. What does that require of an approach? What language and images play a role in this? What does theology have to add at all to the attention already paid to sustainable choices and the Sustainable Development Goals? A conversation about blubber, man's place, responsibility, science and the question of chickeniness.

Translated title of the contribution: 'Stewardship applies to entire society'
Contributing to a movement of Christians taking responsibility in issues of climate change and exploitation of the earth. That is the aim of the Protestant Theological University's (PThU) research project “Soil”. Mirella Klomp from PThU and Jan van der Stoep from WUR talk on the need for dialogue on soil.

Translated title of the contribution: Acts - Grounding theology
The June issue of Handelingen (Acts) magazine is dedicated to our dealings with the earth. Climate and ecological issues cry out for theological reflection on our place as human beings and on how we deal with the earth and all that lives there.
The articles in this theme issue are initial explorations of what a focus on soil might yield. The authors, who are part of the Soil Project Team, explore in several articles:
- the issue of (agricultural) land in the Netherlands, the questions of deacons and churchwardens and farmers around dealing with church leasehold land
- the sources from which pastors draw to arrive at a theological vision for the local land where they carry out their ministerial work
- the action embarrassment of pastors in preaching on climate issues
- a historical case study set in the early 19th century: that of the preacher-farmer

Translated title of the contribution: Farmers' protests