Climate change is happening.

I am not a scientist. Nor do I pretend to be. But drawing on information taken from natural sources — like ice cores, rocks, and tree rings — recorded by satellites, and processed with the aid of the most advanced computer processors the world has ever known, NASA experts report “there is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate” and that “[h]uman activity is the principal cause.”

From global temperature rise to melting ice sheets, glacial retreat to sea levels rising, the evidence of a warming planet abounds. While Earth’s climate has fluctuated throughout history, the current season of warming is happening at a rate not seen in 10 millennia — 10,000 years.

Many of the undergraduate students in courses introducing them to religious traditions — Islam, Christianity or otherwise — have no reservations about climate change and its disastrous effects on the environment and the most vulnerable in human society. In my classrooms, there is a palpable fear about the planet’s future.

It is little wonder, then, that students often ask how religious actors interpret their sacred texts and confessions or how they, in turn, address climate change or engage with the environment.

What they discover can often be disappointing — if not infuriating.

If you were out there looking for a job this summer, you may have come across an eye-catching position at one of London’s largest churches.

Holy Trinity Brompton, or HTB, posted an ad for an “Environmental Project Manager,” to help “oversee the strategy, planning and execution of HTB’s approach to Creation Care.” The individual will work closely with other lead team members to put an “environmental response at the heart of church life,” according to the ad.

HTB, an Anglican church spread across six sites in London with around 3,500-4,500 worshipping every Sunday, is perhaps best known for being the place where the world-famous Alpha evangelistic course originated in the 1970s and 80s.

Jobs like this, at places like HTB, are notable, said Jo Chamberlain, National Environment Policy Officer for the Church of England. Such roles, she said, signal a wider sea change among evangelical churches in the UK — and perhaps elsewhere — realizing the critical importance of creation care and environmental stewardship at the congregational level.

“People are recognizing that we have to get our house in order,” said Chamberlain, “we can’t just talk about taking care of creation without doing the work and changing the way we do things.