Care for the poor and care for the earth have been central concerns to the Christian and Muslim traditions. In recent decades, each tradition has been developing eco-theologies from their respective textual sources and theological heritage, and both have started different faith-driven ecological activities, but dialogue between them remains scarce.

This project, which is done in partnership between the Laudato Si' Research Institute (LSRI) at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, seeks to bring these two traditions in dialogue. LSRI published an Introduction to Qur’anic Ecology and Resonances with Laudato Si' (by Farhana Mayer), with the support of the Randeree Charitable Trust, and the special issue of Religion & Development on Care for the Poor, Care for the Earth - Christian-Muslim Dialogue on Development, with the support of the Oxford University-Berlin University Alliance Partnership, guest edited by Séverine Deneulin and Masooda Bano.

In Autumn 2025, we will publish an open access resource book On the Care and Balance of Our Common Home: Christian-Muslim Dialogues on Ecology, with the support of the Berkley Center at the University of Georgetown. In each chapter, scholars from both faiths engage together to provide the theological underpinnings of their traditions’ major analytical frames for addressing the current ecological crisis as well as potential lines of practical action. On the Care and Balance of Our Common Home aims to be a key educational resource for inter-faith education on ecology. The book will be published with Brill / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in the new book series Studies on Religious Social Practice. A pre-print publication of selected chapters will be available soon.

In Winter 2026, with support from the MB Reckitt Trust, the LSRI will run a formation course on Christian-Muslim Dialogues on Ecology, in partnership with the Al-Mahdi Institute in Birmingham and the Cambridge Muslim College. The formation course aims to equip Christian and Muslim community leaders with the intellectual and theological resources to respond together to today’s ecological crisis. Registration will open in September 2025.