John Stott London Lecture 2025 | Creation care: mission or mission drift?

Kuki Rokhum challenges the global church to integrate creation care into its missional theology and practice – without compromising the centrality of Christ.

As the climate crisis deepens, creation care is racing up the UK church’s agenda. As just one example, A Rocha’s EcoChurch programme now has over 8,500 registered churches with more than 4,100 EcoChurch awards achieved, showing depth as well as breadth of engagement.

Does this desmonstrate the recovery of a biblical priority which the church had lost? Or is it evidence that the church has drifted away from its primary call to evangelism and adopted a contemporary secular agenda?

If, as surveys suggest, many young people's greatest fear is the climate crisis and the future of life on earth, should we proclaim a gospel of rescue and escape from this earth – or is demonstrating hope in Christ for the planet's future our greatest apologetic opportunity?

Kuki Rokhum, based in North East India and with many years’ experience in relief, development, and justice work around the world, brings a distinctive perspective from the global south to these questions. At LICC’s London HQ, she’ll make the case for why creation care is not a distraction but a crucial part of the church’s gospel mission – and how we can pursue the healing of the natural world as a reflection of Christ’s work to redeem all things in creation.

Join us in person or online for a prophetic blend of listening to both God’s word and the cries of our world, helping each of us bring light and hope to our complex times.

The 2025 John Stott London Lecture is hosted by LICC and organised in partnership with A Rocha, All Souls Langham Place, and Langham Partnership.

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