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With preparations under way for a major UN climate change summit next December, 2009 is being described as the year of the last chance - the final opportunity to save the planet from ecological disaster.

In this week's "All Things Considered" (Sunday 11 January 8.30am and repeated Wednesday 14 January 6.30pm), Roy Jenkins meets Mark Dowd from the Christian campaign 'Operation Noah' who is convinced that churches and other faith communities have a key role to play in campaigning on climate change. But are religious leaders too complacent on the subject and who listens to the church anyway? An event to raise awareness, "Cardiff and the Ark", is open to the general public and takes place at the churches' Lightship in Cardiff Bay on Saturday 24 January at 11.00 am.

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Also in the programme a Baptist Minister argues that we've been reading the Bible in the wrong way for generations. You can, say sceptics, use it to prove anything. Flick open the pages, choose a handful of texts, and hey presto, you can confirm any prejudice from the inferiority of women to the existence of a master race. By any reckoning, it can be a puzzling book. Ray Vincent talks about his reflections on a lifetime's engagement with Christian scripture in his new book, Let The Bible Be Itself - learning to read it right.

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• "Let The Bible Be Itself - Learning to read it right" by Ray Vincent.
• Publisher: O Books, 2008.