April 19, 1775, Battle of Lexington and Concord— 250 years ago. Another show of people force is needed tomorrow , this time without arms. Just democracy over tyranny. In Nashville and other cities, it looks like many of these are also taking place alongside Earth Day Celebrations , which falls on Tuesday this year. That's fine and appropriate. Earth over Continue Reading

Steering the country toward ecological disaster. But hey, they sure "owned the libs" didn't they? "Trump Executive Orders Seek to Boost U.S. Coal Production and Consumption" https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/10/headlines/trump\_executive\_orders\_seek\_to\_boost\_us\_coal\_production\_and\_consumption via @democracynow

My eco-connection to God is such that, I often feel far more "spiritually connected" to atheists who are fighting for Eco-justice and for urgent response to the world's Ecological Crisis, than I do to Christians who do NOT have any sense of urgency about the Crisis. That's very "Panentheistic" of me. Much of my experience of God is now closely Continue Reading

Why would we need a "New Heaven" (re: Revelation 21:1 passage: "I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth")? Maybe because "Heaven" is that "should be" or "as it was meant to be" realm that exists as ever present possibility alongside earthly realities. We are, perhaps, called to re-imagine our whole way of doing things, which will require a Continue Reading

There are rabbit-holes galore in the Biblical study of Creation. The Biblical narratives are incessant at keeping the significance of the Earth and Creation front and center: The Bible begins with the Creation Story that centers on the notion that God is Creator The Covenants are clearly conceived as agreements/promises/pledges from God to both Humanity and Creation. Sin is portrayed Continue Reading

On the "Religion is a Problem" meme: Many religious people are certainly problems, too many, but not all. "Religious" people CAN be a problem, except those of a HEALTHY religion. Just as "political" people can be, and yet we don't say that ALL politics need to be rejected. We, instead, should maintain an insistence that we do HEALTHY, COMPASSIONATE politics Continue Reading

I've never understood the desire of so many Democratic voters to go on and on about the "great economy" under Biden. I do understand that it was far better than what he inherited, and far better than what it is now after just two months of chaotic over-reach, but , for someone with a growing sense of foreboding about what Continue Reading

“Trump administration officials have hinted that they are indeed making the case that efforts to limit climate change are worse than its harms and that warming might benefit humanity on balance.” — https://www.vox.com/climate/403877/epa-climate-rollback-endangement-trump-environment I've often thought about how the sane leaders in the world might collaborate to determine to stop a country or countries whose activities threaten the rest of Continue Reading

I grieve for a time when we had a Press and a Supreme Court that stood up for the right of the people to know. When I've re-watched "The Post", I grieve for a time when this idiocy gets QUASHED by the rule of law. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-attack-free-press-shaky-ground-rcna195835

Far more than "stretched the bounds of what is ethical in the White House". It's an absolute smashing of the ethics of the Presidency, or ay public servant, for that matter. But Trump has never served anyone but himself. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/11/trump-musk-tesla-white-house/

I keep rolling my eyes when I hear the exasperation about how Trump's actions are going to "collapse the world economy".  He certainly is hastening it,  much more quickly than the collapse currently underway.  But , people,  the "Economy" has ALWAYS been "calculated" for us by mainstream economics,  which has NEVER considered the costs of ecological damage in it's "assesments" Continue Reading

Thinking about how stressed so many healthy, decent Americans are right now about the dangerously corrupt powers taking things and smashing them. I am also stressed about it, and worried. And then I think about how we have already been facing, for decades, a danger even more dangerous and life threatening, but has been hitting in places and ways that Continue Reading

“The problem with making Christianity a cultural force rather than a redemptive one is that anything culturally normative becomes the Gospel. When the fruit of discipleship are measured by anything other than Christ's example, it's not Christianity … it is merely mammon.” — Thoughts from Bonhoeffer's Child on Substack https://substack.com/@bonhoefferchild/note/c-95292286

Inept. Inefficient. Criminal.

OMG. Trump and this GOP are EVIL. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/03/05/pentagon-watchdog-halts-review-of-military-efforts-root-out-extremism.html