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
“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
I love how responsive the UMC is to disaster. It is an obvious REQUIREMENT to do so; to help people hit by disaster. What I am going to say next is in NO WAY to minimize this at all. We must continue to do so. But ANOTHER way to help is to help PREVENT, or if not PREVENT, to MINIMIZE Continue Reading
Saw a couple of these today as I went out. My first thought was, and what of the Lack of markers of the turning of seasons? The coming of winter? And the invoking of Jesus as “the reason”, as if that invoking is sufficient to represent some universally accepted theology (which it is FAR from doing, most least of all Continue Reading
I am hoping that this is the case. It needs to happen, no matter what the strongest factors may be. It needs to happen , at the very least, because of the sheer scientific evidence and the consensus around that evidence. There is a gathering this week on Thursday : “Coming Together in Faith on Climate”, which is an ecumenical Continue Reading
we’re no longer operating from a paradigm of deviating from the status quo, or operating from the paradigm of looking at the challenge of climate change and what’s actually necessary Source: Tim DeChristopher on the Demand to End All New Fossil Fuel Leasing on Public Lands and Oceans | Democracy Now!
This post comes at the relationship between EcoEcclesia and OccupyTheology from opposite sides from the previous post. In the previous post, I reflected a bit upon why the Climate movement is like the Occupy movement, springing from similar and related sets of causes (the oligarchy’s continuous drive to further consolidate power and economic stranglehold. From another angle, OccupyTheology is Continue Reading
I just created a post type in WordPress for EcoEcclesia. EcoEcclesia , however, is also OccupyTheology, since I contend that it requires an action of “Occupying” the theologies, economies, and spaces of the status quo to ensure that a fundamental questioning must take place. The status quo which brought about the call to “Occupy” is no longer tenable, and that Continue Reading
I commented briefly under this article, posted to the United Methodist News Service Facebook page, and linked to this blog post for a longer reflection and call to action. So here is the longer version: This is SO good to see, one level. On another level, I have been deeply concerned about the silence of the churches, most of all, our Continue Reading
But don’t worry, “the pope is not an economist.” @EndPovertyUSA @americamag — Nathan Schneider (@nathanairplane) July 2, 2015 (And yeah, I RT’d it and trying to embed it on Facebook. May just have to copy the text. )
Yes. And to that I would add the enormous, far-reaching, ongoing moral crisis of refusing to see the writingon the wall about what the scientists are telling us we are doing to the earth’s ability to sustain us. It doesn’t matter what our “OPINION” is, it is the ecosystem. It doesn’t care about our politics (except about that part which Continue Reading
Just posted this to a UMNS article (here, and the comment link is here ) on Facebook: Since I was unable to find a single post over the past 3 months here that even remotely dealt with Climate Change, I might as well post here since it (the post under which I placed this comment was about the possible effects of Continue Reading
Obama told reporters that although he wants the country to move completely away from fossil fuels at some point, domestic oil and natural gas production is still necessary in the short term. via Obama defends Arctic drilling decision | TheHill. When we frame this in terms like “short term” and “long term”, we get a good indication that the two Continue Reading
What Micheal Dowd, in a conversation with him, referred to as a “Come to Jesus moment about the climate”, I expect has been rthe experience of many over the past decade, and the frequency of those have probably plunged upward much like the Hockey Stick made famous by Climatologist Micheal Mann. I have certainly had such a conversion. It’s a Continue Reading
Jeb Bush: “The climate is changing and I’m concerned about that,†Bush responded. “But to be honest with you, I’m more concerned about the hollowing out of our country, the hollowing out of our industrial core, the hollowing out of our ability to compete in an increasingly competitive world.†http://ow.ly/LKMw6 Oh my gosh. In other words, NO, I’m not REALLY Continue Reading
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