Category Archives: ecotheology

Right Wing Climate Denial Chokes on Clouded Cognitive Processors (Science, Economics and some simple Math Needed)

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One of my far-right Facebook friends shared this article with his comments, which will be unnamed, so embarrassed I am for them and this kind of thinking: http://gizmodo.com/denmarks-monster-wind-turbine-just-smashed-the-24-hour-1791889104 “Anybody got room for about 20 million of these? Talk about a blight on the landscape. And not sure how much one of these costs but if it will power one house Continue Reading

An apology and a promise to the world from a Citizen of the World

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Let me be one of millions to tell the other countries of the world, especially those 7 “selected” countries in Trump’s insane, racist, Islamaphobic nonsense ban, that the vast majority of us did not want this, would never have thought of this, and are very ashamed that this goofball was elected President. He is in violation of multiple laws and Continue Reading

The Task Ahead Has Just Gotten Much Harder

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In September of 2014, while reading Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate”, I crossed into a life-changing re-focusing of my vocation of trying to help the Church be the Church and provide Communication and Online Community tools, to sharpening and focusing those tools on the task we face in a Climate Crisis. Now, just over two years Continue Reading

Deep Economy is Deep Theology

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http://www.billmckibben.com/deep-economy.html This is one book that I consider to be really important for the church. These models set forth in this book show how communities (“Cities set on a hill, in theological parlance) need to be working , as much as possible, toward self-sufficiency, to stem the tide of massive transportation of goods from far away places. I just noticed Continue Reading

The Confessing Church that comes out of a Reformation focusing on Ecological Life

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A while back I had written about how there needs to be a “Confessing Church” movement centered on the Climate Crisis. The election of Donald Trump has not only accentuated that need, but it adds a whole slew of additional pleas to people in the Church to have the guts and the consciousness to stand up and reject the capitulation Continue Reading

“Morning Has Broken?”

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I can hear them saying. All is cool. It’s “Morning in America” again, hearkening back to the time when Reagan crushed Carter to get elected, contrasting himself with Carter’s now prescient forseeing of the impact of the fossil-fuel economy, by telling us that “all is calm, all is bright” and taking down the solar panels Carter put on the roof Continue Reading

Eco-Reformation, our required penance for our blasphemy

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Reformation, Eco-centric theological revolution, is a requirement for the Church now, after centuries of ignorance and then willful denial, of humankind’s overreach and excess. The denial is nothing less than the ultimate sin: the destruction of the habitat and ecosystem required for, first, the very emergence of the human species in the first place, and then the sustainability of that Continue Reading

“Turbo-charging” Reformation

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“It is time for a prophetic turbo-charging of our religious traditions. Foremost is the need to expand beyond the self-focus of individual salvation or enlightenment to also include vital community concerns—notably, survival. The community now, of course, is the entire human family and the more-than-human Earth community. 2” — Michael Dowd, with a footnote nod to Thomas Berry Link to Continue Reading

Eco-Reformation means catipulting the Climate Crisis into theological prominence

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As the 500th year of the Reformation approaches (8 days away now),  I have a few thoughts on the long journey ahead toward bringing the Climate Crisis to the top of the theological priorities of the Church for the crucial years ahead of us.  This will determine whether or not the Church awakens to the catastrophic dangers we face as Continue Reading

Ten more days until the beginning of the 500th year of the Reformation

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On Nov. 1, 2016,  the year that culminates in the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation will begin.  So ,  that 500th year will bring many reflections and explorations and research from me at EcoEcclesia on the Eco-Reformation we need to expand, explore, and set as a vital mission of the Church for the years ahead.  It’s “vital” to any Continue Reading