This page : http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/eco-justice under the “Ministries” tab actually shows up as a drop down from the Home page, so they have the best “presence” yet found. This is not exactly a glowing report. As I have been maintaining, this seems to me to be warranting a significant, theologically challenging and reformation-inducing confrontation that strikes at the core of who Continue Reading
Wow, the American Baptist Church lists nothing indicating Climate concerns on a page “All ABC Ministries“, which would have netted them a “second level mention”, but to not crack that list of some 30 or more Ministries? Really?
I found it under “Resources” : a link to “Care for Creation“. This is a positive mark. But my underlying message in undertaking this little survey of Denominational Websites is to ask the question: Why isn’t the Climate Crisis considered enough of a clear and present danger that it warrants SOME MENTION on the HOME PAGE?
So, here’s a bit from the Presbyterian website, on a page about an Advocacy Training” in April 2016: At Compassion Peace and Justice Training Day, we will take a look at how Presbyterians are working to address the suppression of political and economic rights of people of color, immigrants, workers, and the poor in our own country and abroad. We Continue Reading
A study on right wing “studies” article offers this depiction of “the arguments” the Right has vs Climate Change. Seems accurate. three basic messages: (1) Climate change isn’t happening. (2) If climate change were happening, that would still be OK, because climate change is good for you. (3) Even if climate change were happening and it was bad, the solution Continue Reading
Denial of science is MUCH MORE DESTRUCTIVE today than when the Church in the Middle Ages denied the science of Copernicus. It was an easy matter and of no real consequence for the life of the inhabitants of the planet that so many Christians fell in line with the old world view, “because the Bible.” Now, things are different. Ignoring Continue Reading
There’s no area of life and politics where “The Middle” is more damaging than in the Climate Crisis. It keeps people staying out of the topic and simply ignoring it, since , in the judgement of “The Middle”, it is “unsettled”. It caused a good friend of mine of 30 years to eventually cut off ties with me (which really Continue Reading
Just now, as I picked up a pile of papers and books to move it aside to make room to set my laptop on some table space near me, one of those books was my hardback copy of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate. And the term “Everything” got me thinking. Just what is included in that Continue Reading
How often we forget (and ignore) what MLK did and said and wrote AFTER 1963, after “I have a Dream”…..He moved to link the various maladies of society to the larger problem of justice; to a “Cosmic bent toward justice”; to Vietnam and violence, to Economic justice (Poor People’s March, housng in Chicago, Memphis sanitation worker’s strike), and yes, even Continue Reading
“NBC could have asked Democratic candidates 1,000 smarter questions on climate change than this.” http://ow.ly/XdLLW And yet, as I look at the article expecting some examples of the 1000, scarcely little more time was spent in the article on this quesiton than NBC gave it.* (See update on this below) I think we have a real problem talking about this, Continue Reading
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
Today is the day that the National Observance on Monday will commemorate, the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. And to mark the deep impact this man has had on my journey, I focus on this particular quote to highlight yet another theological insight which has changed my course since the fall of 2014. “In a real sense all Continue Reading
MLK always knew “Life is Interrelated”. In his Letter from the Birmingham jail, he wrote “We are all in an inescapable network of mutuality”. Had the verdict on Climate been in during his time, he would have been including and integrating that into his insights. This is perhaps an insight whose time has come for the church to stand up Continue Reading
25 years ago, and for about 10 years after that, the Web was a REALLY exciting place. Electric, vivacious, energetic, full of hope and possibility. It still is, but it has been “contaminated” with what contaminates nearly everything that becomes ubiqutous: the kind of “anomie” that seems to come with mass-anything. Social Media has been both a blessing and a curse. In the Continue Reading
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