I cannot help now, but think — when I see or have cause to think about a depiction in the Superman stories — of the people of Krypton’s reaction to Jor-El’s warnings about the fate of their planet. Sure, this is a modern mythology story, but the archetype here is valid: That “a way of life” has a strong Continue Reading
Just posted this on the Facebook page of The United Methodist News Service (here) : The United Methodist Church, along with all the other denominations and Christian Communities, need to take their cue from Pope Francis and focus on the reformation that is REQUIRED in Christian theology around the globe. The level of threat to which we have brought the Continue Reading
NaomiAKlein : “Social movements move the bar, so that the next time we come to the table, what is politically possible is aligned with what is physically necessary” on @DemocracyNow (on YouTube)
That so many, especially in the church, have succumbed to a position of ignoring the truths about how our way of living has brought humanity to a place of dire emergency. When I talk about this, the silence and changing of the subject is striking. Even amongst people who say they believe that the climate is changing and that we Continue Reading
This from Climate Progress: Obama Is ‘Delusional’ For Saying Climate Change Is A Major National Security Threat, Fiorina Says The delusion is what she has apparently accepted; the delusion that Climate Science is some sort of political conspiracy by liberals to redistribute the wealth and destroy that most wonderful of discoveries: that fossil fuels will save us a lot of Continue Reading
I’d like an update from UMNS (United Methodist News Service) on the article from about 6 weeks ago, looking forward to the Paris Climate ( #COP21 ) talks (http://www.umc.org/news-and-media/seeking-climate-justice-in-pariss) Yesterday and today, there were marches held to call to account the Paris COP21 meetings to hear the world’s people and resist the accomodation of corporations and the Fossil Fuel industry. Continue Reading
I looked at the various denominations’ websites Home Pages back in 2011 at the beginnings of the Occupy Movement, to look for how seriously the various denominations took their role as prophetic voices for economic justice. The home pages didn’t seem to reflect much of a consciousness of the importance of the economic crisis at that moment. Now, as Pope Continue Reading
I am hoping that this is the case. It needs to happen, no matter what the strongest factors may be. It needs to happen , at the very least, because of the sheer scientific evidence and the consensus around that evidence. There is a gathering this week on Thursday : “Coming Together in Faith on Climate”, which is an ecumenical Continue Reading
we’re no longer operating from a paradigm of deviating from the status quo, or operating from the paradigm of looking at the challenge of climate change and what’s actually necessary Source: Tim DeChristopher on the Demand to End All New Fossil Fuel Leasing on Public Lands and Oceans | Democracy Now!
This post comes at the relationship between EcoEcclesia and OccupyTheology from opposite sides from the previous post. In the previous post, I reflected a bit upon why the Climate movement is like the Occupy movement, springing from similar and related sets of causes (the oligarchy’s continuous drive to further consolidate power and economic stranglehold. From another angle, OccupyTheology is Continue Reading
I just created a post type in WordPress for EcoEcclesia. EcoEcclesia , however, is also OccupyTheology, since I contend that it requires an action of “Occupying” the theologies, economies, and spaces of the status quo to ensure that a fundamental questioning must take place. The status quo which brought about the call to “Occupy” is no longer tenable, and that Continue Reading
I commented briefly under this article, posted to the United Methodist News Service Facebook page, and linked to this blog post for a longer reflection and call to action. So here is the longer version: This is SO good to see, one level. On another level, I have been deeply concerned about the silence of the churches, most of all, our Continue Reading
Another Facebook comment I wrote under a UMNS link (here) on Facebook has prompted a longer reflection that seems fitting as a blog post. It addresses the frustration I feel with the “theological obfuscation” in which Christians are habitually engaging. “To become a church that makes disciples of Jesus Christ equipped to transform lives, communities , and the world” is hard Continue Reading
“the Earth and future generations need us all right now, every gift we have to give toward turning the tide of political power in our world.” – Margaret Swedish via this from Center for New Creation on Facebook, reacting to this news : Bonn Climate Talks Fail to Deliver Common Grounds Undermining Hopes of Meaningful Deal in Paris The world continues to Continue Reading
“God created all of us to dwell together in unity” from A.M.E. Council of Bishops Demand Action to Confront Racism in the U.S. linked from UMNS Indeed. Which also includes all of creation. ALL is created to dwell in unity. The very earth works that way. When we disrupt that unity, all hell breaks loose. So we must fight all disruption. Continue Reading