Consensual honesty: Tim Ashworth on a ‘tool for effective change’

‘There can be no transforming light without honesty.’

by Tim Ashworth 26th July 2024

In Eden Grace’s 2019 Swarthmore Lecture, (‘On Earth as it is in Heaven: The Kingdom of God and the yearning of creation’), and in the final chapter of the accompanying book, she considers communication and motivation in relation to the climate crisis. She is acutely aware that facts about the climate crisis can generate fear, and that fear paralyses creative thought and action. ‘The research shows that facts coupled with invitations to concrete action are much more effective than facts alone,’ she says.