If churches can identify themselves as “Bible-believing” Churches ,or “Active in the Community”, “Reconciling (referring to their acceptance of GLBTQ members) , or “Justice” Churches, or constantly reveal their falling in line with the Christian Right by emphasizing, on a constant basis, thier “opposition” to the various lists of things on the Christian Right “Disapproval” items such as Gun Control, Continue Reading
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
Of much larger “historic” significance than a Presidential gender is the apparent decision to — despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that is growing more and more foreboding every day — just simply continue on as if nothing will ever happen to us, and that the ecological system will just have to agree with us and give us permission. Foolish, foolish Continue Reading
I’ve often entertained and contemplated the questions surrounding what happens if we don’t “rally around Hillary”. Hillary and her supporters have claimed that it is like voting for Trump. Many Sanders supporters are supporters precisely because they are (myself included) are saying “Enough is enough”. And when faced with the possibility that a big drop in Democratic support might well Continue Reading
I posted the following as a comment on this post on UMC.org’s UMNS News section, on this post: http://www.umc.org/news-and-media/boards-challenge-others-to-remove-lgbtq-bar. Since they monitor the comments, and it is Sunday, it probably won’t appear there until tomorrow, I wanted to circulate my comments, so I made it into a blog post , posted the notice of the blog post to my Continue Reading
Last Saturday night (April 23rd) I was telling a story to some of my old Youth Group (whoi were meeting in Reunion) about my “Vermont experience” which culminated in my Calling to the Ministry, and we got sidetracked from my getting to the end of that point I was about to make about that. I had just described how I 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
Hillary flatly refused to answer the question about the Goldman Sachs speech transcripts, after REPEATED insistent repeating of the question (by Dana Bash. See here ). What exactly is this? Is this acceptable? It’s quite concerning if you want to place candidate transparency at any level of importance. JUST ANSWER the question, Hillary. This should be a HUGE, AWFUL demerit Continue Reading
I remember a title “The Cultural Captivity of the Churches”. This is so true regarding the Climate Crisis. That practically NO CHURCHES in the world are making this a message of crisis proportions and re-thinking their theology in light of this massive cultural captivity (the denial of the extent of the Crisis, or that there even IS a CRISIS). The Continue Reading
I watch posts on a variety of topics from Christians and Church organizations and denominations, many of which I am glad to see being confronted and talked about. But amidst it all, the glaring absence of concern about the Climate Crisis continues to speak loudly, and alarmingly, about the level of our denial as a church and as a people Continue Reading