I see it happening every day, in almost EVERY article now. We are all day, all channels, “Not-Trump” and what this does is ensure that we aren’t thinking about the Climate Crisis. Even though it is immensely obvious that Trump represents a lot of darkness, it is also spreading the dark cloud of Climate Crisis Denial to just continue on Continue Reading
Someone commented on the “How To Let Go” Movie Facebook page that they thought Josh was way too conservative on his science. That it’s even worse than he was indicating. And I thought, “Wow. I sure didn’t get that impression” Then I thought, “Wait, Are the various levels of intense numbers the thing that “increase our awareness”? Is it Continue Reading
I fully understand the fear of the Trump. I too fear that. But I also fear the art of the no-win situation; the “lesser-of-two-evils” that keeps us in a grid-lock that benefits no one but the most powerful, and continues to condemn millions to misery, poverty, and death. Something HAS to happen to stop it. I have seen many kindred Continue Reading
To the many “Facebook friends” and Theoblogical/EcoEcclesia Blog readers who see my frequent and often postings on our Ecological Crisis, and my insistence that we are in dire need of a Reformation that is as significant (even MORE, actually) and far-reaching and culture-shaping as that of the Protestant Reformation, and you want to tell me I’m being a bit over-dramatic Continue Reading
Hillary made it abundantly clear that she has next to no identification with the massive independent movement that the Sanders campaign brought into the DNC. Her responses to the Sanders campaign were horrendous, condescending, and revealing of how dangerously establishment she is. She has revealed how neocon international ideology has been adopted into the playbook of “liberal”. It obliterates the Continue Reading
Okay, here’s an example, from the UMC.org site’s “What We Believe” section. I pick on the UMC because this is what I identify as “My people” (since I could no longer say that about the Southern Baptists after a great “growing up” in that denomination prior to it’s dismantling as a diverse, loving, nurturing “home” as it turned to doctrinaire, Continue Reading
I’ve never been so convinced of the real dangers (and thus, the “heresy”) of Gnosticism, as I have become since my “Eco-conversion” back in the fall of 2014. The notion of the “Interrelatedness” of ALL things has made plain the danger of a dualism that separates us from the ecosystem on which we depend and from which we came. It Continue Reading
I would like to see many, many more of my Progressive friends take a cue from the Climate Denial of the Political and Religious Right, by not stopping short by just listing that denial as one of many things that can be criticized and ridiculed about them, and start doing the opposite of denial, by really accepting the reality of Continue Reading
What is it with the Church denominations on the Climate Crisis? The coverage seems to be be declining rather than taking a sharp turn upward and beginning to act like they understand what’s at stake. This is a colossal ethical problem. To stay out of the issue in their coverage is tantamount to a blasphemous bow to the forces of Continue Reading
What I am trying to say in my previous post is that I think that the UMC, like other mainline denominations, do not know how to talk about the Climate Crisis. This is part of the problem of not having an eco-centered theological education base from which to be formed in that way. One way I think we will begin Continue Reading
I’m so sick of “Emo Prog”, “angry” characterizations, which leave me feeling that it is “politically uncorrect” to be angry at what has happened to our bought and sold “Democracy” (and there, I revealed my own ANGER. Please set aside your “measured” position and look at just why this anger exists, and spare me the argument that it is “extreme”, Continue Reading
One could say that it has been 25 years since the world has really begun to hear the most pressing concerns of the Climate Science community. Since then, we really don’t have any excuses for how long we’ve allowed things to simply continue (to continue systematically poisoning the ecosystem in unprecedented ways; “unprecedented” in the history of the planet. Continue Reading