I’ve been thinking of the juxtaposition of Earth Day and Easter. First, how so many Christians talk about how so many people only “come to church” on Easter (aka “Once a year”, maybe throw in a Christmas Eve service). “Earth Day” just lends itself to the same abuse of THE ONE DAY being wholly insufficient as “action”, especially given the Continue Reading
My previous post on my concerns about Rachel Maddow's lack of attention to the Ecological Crisis has me thinking now also about how it has taken this manic, crazed attack of DOGE and Trump's "Executive Orders" to get people more activated for resistance. Where has this been regarding the Ecological Crisis which has been getting ignored and is constantly under Continue Reading
I've noticed for many years now that Rachel, for all her stellar and outspoken coverage on a wide range of topics of great importance, a rather stunning silence on the Ecological Crisis, even as the Crisis accelerates over the past 10 years. Now this. Pope Francis was CERTAINLY an advocate for the migrant. But, seriously, a eulogy on Francis without Continue Reading
I've been thinking of the juxtaposition of Earth Day and Easter. First, how so many Christians talk about how so many people only "come to church" on Easter (aka "Once a year", maybe throw in a Christmas Eve service). "Earth Day" just lends itself to the same abuse of THE ONE DAY being wholly insufficient as "action", especially given the Continue Reading
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