CRES

CRES is a distance learning course, but we also like to meet together. We are based at Ripon College, Cuddesdon nr. Oxford, and have three meetings there a year. This report on the day conference on 12th Nov. 2011 is the first meeting of this academic year. People started to arrive at around 10.00am and [...]

This has been a very good year (2011) for publications by CRES Personnel. John Reader (Senior Tutor of the CRES Diploma) was a co-author on “Christianity and the New Social Order – A manifesto for a fairer future.” Margot Hodson (CRES Tutor and JRI Board member) published “Uncovering Isaiah’s Environmental Ethics“, and was co-author with [...]

The Annual CRES residential was held on the 9th and 10th September 2011 at Ripon College Cuddesdon, nr. Oxford. It was a really good two days with a very varied programme. Four students gave presentations on their dissertations. Tim Fox was awarded a Diploma, and Martin Dominic and Nigel Hewish Certificates. Congratulations to all three! [...]

June 2011 Field Trip Collage

For some years now, CRES has hosted annual summer field trips to which we extend invitations to all those from the JRI and CRuC communities. The field trips move around the country, and are organised by different people each year. John Reader and John Neal organised this trip [...]

Rev John Whitehead and Dr Martin Hodson have recently written an article for “The Reader” magazine,  an official publication of the Church of England. Their article is entitled “Christian Rural Concern: Ahead of the Game”, and tells the story of Christian Rural Concern (CRuC) from its beginnings, has details of the latest CRuC research project, [...]

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Although the CRES course starts and finishes in September each year the Spring and early Summer are the times when many people are looking for courses. CRES is now getting quite a few enquiries every week, and we recommend that students make their applications by mid-September as this allows us to find a local tutor [...]

CRES, in association with JRI and CRuC, had this year’s summer field trip visiting Anthony and Sandra Herbert at Whetstone Fruit Farm in Leicestershire. Fourteen of us came from all over the country. After coffee on arrival we  went on a tour of the farm on a trailer pulled by a tractor.  We [...]

As part of our continuing programme of updating the CRES Certificate course we are pleased to announce that we now have a new module available in Rural and Environmental Theology. This was written by John Whitehead and Lizzie Rushton, and we are grateful to them both. The module will be available immediately to the current [...]

How does CRES run? Every six months we hold a Steering Group meeting somewhere in the UK (currently Warmington, nr. Banbury or Haddenham, Bucks). This time five of us met at John Neal’s farm at Warmington (we had two apologies) on April 19th 2010. The meeting takes a good four hours to cover what is [...]

20th February 2010- CRES day conference at Ripon College Cuddesdon
Every few months the CRES course meets at Ripon College Cuddesdon. Although we are a distance learning course we do like to get together. It means students and tutors can meet each other and we can update on things that have been happening. We always try [...]