I would like to see many, many more of my Progressive friends take a cue from the Climate Denial of the Political and Religious Right, by not stopping short by just listing that denial as one of many things that can be criticized and ridiculed about them, and start doing the opposite of denial, by really accepting the reality of Continue Reading
I just posted this comment under a post* on the United Methodist News Service Facebook page describing actions taken in flood relief in Louisiana : I think we need “hands and feet” on the causes of this acceleration of occurrence of these type disasters, and occurrences that are also accelerating in their intensity. These are yet more warning signs of Continue Reading
What is it with the Church denominations on the Climate Crisis? The coverage seems to be be declining rather than taking a sharp turn upward and beginning to act like they understand what’s at stake. This is a colossal ethical problem. To stay out of the issue in their coverage is tantamount to a blasphemous bow to the forces of Continue Reading
What I am trying to say in my previous post is that I think that the UMC, like other mainline denominations, do not know how to talk about the Climate Crisis. This is part of the problem of not having an eco-centered theological education base from which to be formed in that way. One way I think we will begin Continue Reading
The survey was linked from UMC.org at http://www.umc.org/news-and-media/charting-u.s.-religious-change-in-an-election-season Some day one of these “religious surveys” might begin to get the picture that there is a massive upsurge in new efforts within churches and ecumenical organizations to respond as People of God to the epoch-sized crisis our civilization has precipitated. It is , in fact, far beyond doubt that we as a Continue Reading
I’m so sick of “Emo Prog”, “angry” characterizations, which leave me feeling that it is “politically uncorrect” to be angry at what has happened to our bought and sold “Democracy” (and there, I revealed my own ANGER. Please set aside your “measured” position and look at just why this anger exists, and spare me the argument that it is “extreme”, Continue Reading
Naomi Klein: “it’s about changing the paradigm of a culture that is based on separateness from nature, that is based on the idea that we can dominate nature, that we are the boss, that we are in charge. Climate change challenges all of that. ” http://ow.ly/XWn4P And that, my friends, is (or SHOULD be) Eco Theology 101 (and in its Continue Reading
One could say that it has been 25 years since the world has really begun to hear the most pressing concerns of the Climate Science community. Since then, we really don’t have any excuses for how long we’ve allowed things to simply continue (to continue systematically poisoning the ecosystem in unprecedented ways; “unprecedented” in the history of the planet. Continue Reading
This morning, I commeneted on yet another UMNS articl.e about the UMC’s upcoming General Conference 2016, and the “Preview to General Conference debate on homosexuality” (or, the “Continuation of the same debates” on homosexuality, while avoiding and pushing aside the far deeper danger and peril of the Climate Crisis”). I wrote this: Speaking of “trust the authority of Scripture”, what Continue Reading
A liink “Care for the Earth” under “Justice” So most are on an even par with one another. Nothing on the Home pages, some dropdown links, mostly requiring a click down to a further listing under what is obviously considered a “Larger” category. Perhaps it is, but the same can be said about ANY theological issue; that it belongs under Continue Reading
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