Thousands of Australian school students took to the streets this week, protesting the Australian Governments inaction on climate change and shameful history of environmental degradation. Frustrated by their Government’s disinterest in genuinely tackling the causes of climate change—and concerned that it will be their generation that will suffer the consequences of the human-made global warming and environmental destruction that is happening before their very eyes—these school students embraced the spirit of protest and resistance and walked out of their classrooms in their thousands, demanding action by the Australian Government.

...

Transformed nonconformity is a spiritual practice. In Mobilizing Hope, Adam Russell Taylor of Sojourners says the church needs to find ways “to inspire and mobilize a committed minority of transformed nonconformists who creatively apply their faith in fresh, bold, and innovative ways.”