Geat interview w/ Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) on @DemocracyNow (40 minutes)
via Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Policing & Noam Chomsky | Democracy Now!.
Category Archives: OWS
“eco-nomics: cultivating the material conditions for the continuation of life”
the very purpose of eco-nomics in the biblical world carries new force on this side of modern economics; namely, to cultivate the material conditions for the continuation of life. Rasmussen, Larry L. (2012-10-02). Earth-honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key (p. 150). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition. Amen! It seems obvious, but not when you look at our present Continue Reading
a political economy that operates with a different metabolism from that of the rest of nature
From Earth -Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key (which would make a great textbook for a class in EcoTheology 101) The chief obstacles will be the political-economic and sociocultural dimensions of ways of life that remain addicted to fossil fuels, that have not yet come to terms with the limits of planetary systems, that assume happiness and fulfillment Continue Reading
Obama has some catching up to do on ACTIONS and POLICIES re: Climate Change
Bill McKibben published his thoughts on what the deal with China means and doesn’t mean. One stood out forme. It is not remotely enough to keep us out of climate trouble via The Big Climate Deal: What It Is, and What It Isn’t | Bill McKibben We need to rid ourselves and our leaders from the notion that “finally” we’re actually doing Continue Reading
The staggering irresponsibility of Imhofe’s Climate -denying “God is up there” #PeoplesClimate #EcoTheology
Senator Inhofe (set to become the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee) quoted the Bible (Genesis 8:22) to support his thesis. “My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous,†he said. Genesis 8:22 Continue Reading
Resist the beginnings of compromises
Larry Rasmussen , writing about Bonhoeffer, also aptly describes what we need to respond to the climate crisis: to see through the passive, blind, denial of the dire consequences toward which we are allowing ourselves to be pulled. Resist the beginnings of compromises that dull the moral senses and take their ease in a life of cheap grace. Resist the Continue Reading
From Social Justice to Creation Justice by Dr.LarryRasmussen (video)
Presently reading Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key by Larry Rasmussen, who gives a lecture on the topic here. Key quote:: If Social Justice itself is not henceforth also Creation justice, then it too will fail. via The 2014 Lazareth Lecture: Dr.LarryRasmussen – YouTube.
Occupy Distortions of Dominion #PeoplesClimate #OccupyTheology
Liberation Theologian Leonardo Boff, on ecosystem: That is why I am extending the intuitions of liberation theology and demonstrating their validity and applicability for the questions enveloping the Earth, our bountiful mother. – Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor (Ecology & Justice) (Kindle Locations 167-168). Orbis Books. Kindle Edition. This speaks to me in my quest to express ecotheological Continue Reading
@ThisChanges Everything includes our current expectations of our present strain of capitalism
There is still time to avoid catastrophic warming but not within the rules of capitalism as they are currently constructed. From NYT review As the science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson observed, when it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check. This is what is so hard, if not seeming impossible, to tell the people Continue Reading
@Joerg_Rieger on Deep Solidarity – Boston Poverty Consortium #OWS
Do today’s faith communities understand that good news to the poor might imply addressing and ending the conditions that create poverty? via Joerg Rieger on Deep Solidarity – Boston Poverty Consortium. Decades ago, the Brazilian Bishop Dom Hélder Câmara put it this way: “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they Continue Reading
The 1% cant abide mention of their real effects. They’re not done yet. #OWS
American Enterprise Institute’s Michael Strain, a moderate, wrote that Yellen is now “in danger of becoming a partisan hack via Yellen Mentions Inequality; Right Scandalized — NYMag. Yeah, for analyzing what is established FACT. The Right yet again shows its UNHINGED-ness. Further: Rather than actually state that rising inequality is a problem in American life, she merely conceded that it Continue Reading
Some more great #OccupyTheology from @nathanairplane via NPR’s Krista Tippett
Here is a quote from the video that encapsulates #OccupyTheology as well as any phrase could: Church! Act like a church! (about 22:30 for the context) via Krista Tippett with Nathan Schneider – YouTube. On what he (Nathan) hopes for about how people in the world are living that agency; building those kinds of communities that we need; to resist Continue Reading
Unsustainable theo-capitalism – @BrianMcLaren #OWS #PeoplesClimate
The big question in my mind is whether people of faith and goodwill will rise up and successfully tame capitalism-gone-wild, or whether it will prove untamable and drive off the cliff of collapse. via Five Good Answers with Author, Speaker, and Activist Brian D. McLaren : Matt Litton. This seems to be my two overarching concerns right now (and Brian Continue Reading
Moyers from 2008: Is God Green? Evangelical Environmentalism| PBS
Is God Green? via Moyers on America . Is God Green? | PBS. Watch it via PBS Just a bit of the problem that happens with “Bible Interpretation”. The text renders radically different responses, based on the context. Some will “filter” and create their own “CANON” of Scripture and ignore the more obvious , “inconvenient” passages that would otherwise cry Continue Reading