What Passes for Civilization

Whenever people do research into the intricacies of history (or , in many cases, "History" as told by "the victors"), and they take care to look into certain economic motivations and drivers, they tend to see very clearly the neoliberal "Greenwashing" and "Equality Washing" done by those forces (very prevalent in the U.S. and other Western techno states). The "Equality Continue Reading

Unrestrained Activities of Modern Civilization

“The climate emergency is bad enough. But if we pause for a moment and look around at the bigger picture, we see that, even with its terrifying implications, it's merely a symptom of a far larger predicament: the pervasive and accelerating devastation of the living Earth caused by the unrestrained activities of modern civilization. Nature is unraveling all around us, Continue Reading

Images of Exile and Wandering in the Wilderness

I was thinking this morning about Biblical narratives and themes which were vital stories for the calling of God's people in the Hebrew story, and the first one that came to mind was the Exodus; the "Promised Land". I think that this, and others in "Salvation History" are important for us to take forward into the Anthropocene, as we humans Continue Reading

Journey Outward becomes Inward Cage

Gnosticism in a nutshell: “In the worlds of political, religious and economic man, commitment was outwardly directed to those communal beliefs, practices and institutions that were bigger than the individual and in which the individual, to the degree that he or she conformed to or cooperated with them, found meaning. The ancient Athenian was committed to the assembly, the medieval Continue Reading

The Oldest Bible

“The first act of divine revelation is creation itself. The first Bible is the Bible of nature. It was written at least 13.8 billion years ago, at the moment that we call the Big Bang, long before the Bible of words. “Ever since God created the world, God’s everlasting power and divinity—however invisible—are there for the mind to see in Continue Reading

Earth Day 2026: How do we save us?

What will it take to save us? First thing is to take it seriously. “The beginning comes after the end” **…..the old is collapsing under its oldness. We’ve actually been trying to use the old, long sequestered, by extracting and burning, which is a maximum way of “holding on to the past”. Think “overshoot”. Taking a sequestering, balancing process of Continue Reading