Church leaders are using their annual Christmas messages and sermons to intensify pressure on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to take greater action on climate change, backing striking school students and fire-affected citizens.
"We need to invest in renewable energy for a sustainable future," Dr Palmer said in an interview.
She said the church was heeding the pleas of children and young people "for all of us to work together to respond to the environmental devastation that is having tragic consequences" and called for "personal and community actions" to bring "healing and renewal". Outspoken Gosford Anglican parish rector the Venerable Rod Bower used his Christmas message to attack the federal government's religious freedom inquiry as a veiled "endorsement of vilification" to "seduce a small political base".
"But can I challenge you to take seriously the message we receive from children and young people at Christmas?"
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