Category Archives: People’s Climate
UCC – Mention on 2nd level under “Advocate for Justice”
There’s a menu dropdown titled “Advocate for Justice” which includes “Understand the issues”, so selecting this from the dropdown yields a page that includes “Environment” with two links, compared to 8-12 listings under other areas like “Economic Justice”. All of this sure shouts to me that some serious updating of their categories and thinking about Climate is in order. They Continue Reading
Churches need to bring to the fore the grassroots faith-based Climate message
A study on right wing “studies” article offers this depiction of “the arguments” the Right has vs Climate Change. Seems accurate. three basic messages: (1) Climate change isn’t happening. (2) If climate change were happening, that would still be OK, because climate change is good for you. (3) Even if climate change were happening and it was bad, the solution Continue Reading
The stakes are higher than simply dismissing the folks with their “heads in the sand”
Denial of science is MUCH MORE DESTRUCTIVE today than when the Church in the Middle Ages denied the science of Copernicus. It was an easy matter and of no real consequence for the life of the inhabitants of the planet that so many Christians fell in line with the old world view, “because the Bible.” Now, things are different. Ignoring Continue Reading
“The Middle” is horrible for the Climate
There’s no area of life and politics where “The Middle” is more damaging than in the Climate Crisis. It keeps people staying out of the topic and simply ignoring it, since , in the judgement of “The Middle”, it is “unsettled”. It caused a good friend of mine of 30 years to eventually cut off ties with me (which really Continue Reading
What is “Everything” that has changed for me?
Just now, as I picked up a pile of papers and books to move it aside to make room to set my laptop on some table space near me, one of those books was my hardback copy of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate. And the term “Everything” got me thinking. Just what is included in that Continue Reading
King, The “Inconvenient Hero”, and “The Ecological Thinker”
How often we forget (and ignore) what MLK did and said and wrote AFTER 1963, after “I have a Dream”…..He moved to link the various maladies of society to the larger problem of justice; to a “Cosmic bent toward justice”; to Vietnam and violence, to Economic justice (Poor People’s March, housng in Chicago, Memphis sanitation worker’s strike), and yes, even Continue Reading
Mentioning Climate and then moving on; the usual habit
“NBC could have asked Democratic candidates 1,000 smarter questions on climate change than this.” http://ow.ly/XdLLW And yet, as I look at the article expecting some examples of the 1000, scarcely little more time was spent in the article on this quesiton than NBC gave it.* (See update on this below) I think we have a real problem talking about this, Continue Reading
The Necessary Revolution in Values
What follows is a comment I entered on the UMNS Facebook page under this post that asks the question: People thought President Kennedy was crazy when he shot for the moon. Leaders dream big. So what’s your church’s moonshot? So I offered this: I bet many could guess what I’m going to say. The “moon-shot” is actually a good illustration of Continue Reading
Opening Shot: This Changes Everything
“You purchased this item on September 23, 2014.” This is the Amazon banner at the top of the Screen when I call up the listing for Naomi Klein’s This changes Everything. This is where the big change happened for me. Reading this. It brought together 30 years of ecotheological rumblings that finally burst out of my consciousness and into a Continue Reading
The “threat” of King’s “inescapable network of mutuality”
Today is the day that the National Observance on Monday will commemorate, the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. And to mark the deep impact this man has had on my journey, I focus on this particular quote to highlight yet another theological insight which has changed my course since the fall of 2014. “In a real sense all Continue Reading
MLK sensed what Climate Science knew and later confirmed
MLK always knew “Life is Interrelated”. In his Letter from the Birmingham jail, he wrote “We are all in an inescapable network of mutuality”. Had the verdict on Climate been in during his time, he would have been including and integrating that into his insights. This is perhaps an insight whose time has come for the church to stand up Continue Reading
The Gnostic American Church and Climate Crisis Denial
More on one of those “Three common arguments” from Climate-Crisis-Denial Land, the one that objects by saying “Oh, that’s being political”, as if that is grounds for an automatic bypass of the argument. It’s a dog-whistle, with the “preaching to the choir” meaning being that this is a “liberal thing” and a part of the “plot to destroy America by Continue Reading
How far apart we have grown (because of The Climate Crisis)
What’s really galling to me is how little ANYONE I grew up with (like from my former youth group) interacts with me AT ALL on this issue. I post to Facebook a great deal on this. Perhaps they’ve simply turned off my posts. Perhaps they’ve clicked on “Don’t show me posts like this”. Without a way to look at this Continue Reading
Climate Crisis on the sidelines for the churches
People may be wondering how it is, and maybe even WHY it is, that I keep relating things, seemingly anything, to the Climate Crisis. And to that I say, “You betcha”. The fact that we put this issue on the sidelines comparative to almost ANYTHING else is testimony to how far removed we have become as PARTICIPANTS and INTER-DEPENDENTS in Continue Reading
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