For the umteenth time, I have seen a post of a denier joke meme of the same ignorant variety on the meme: “It’s cold outside, so global warming must not be real.” One of the best retorts to that I’ve heard is from Stephen Colbert: “I just ate, so world hunger must be a myth”. When I comment on such Continue Reading
OMG, the warnings I will receive about the heresy of expanding the idea of salvation so far as this book “threatens” to do! It will distort the simple meaning! It will detract me from the Good News of the Gospel, which I should be preaching “instead” of all this “political” Climate science mumbo-jumbo! “How can we imagine the gracious, compassionate Continue Reading
Ok. I keep hearing the right wing meme, cast at @AOC, “the world is not ending in 12 years” My reply to all repeating that like some kind of robotic “meme-imbibers”: You fail to understand the reference for that. There was an IPCC paper that talked bout the importance of the next 12 years (and the next 32). Look it Continue Reading
Perhaps this all has something to do with fossil fuel corporations and their executives being able to make trillions of dollars by keeping us from trusting what climate scientists are saying. Perhaps they think they can trust that these trillions of dollars will keep them safe when the climate is in chaos, but that is not trusting in God, that Continue Reading
My prior theological focus , before my “Eco-conversion”, was the Occupy movement. Before ecoecclesia.org was my blog address, it was occupytheology.org (both urls still work, in addition to theoblogical.org ) This woman is strong in both economic justice and the ecological crisis! So pumped to see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking so strongly on both! I feel my “Occupy” sensibilities are still Continue Reading
“Global capitalism, neoliberal economics and the power structure depend upon things continuing as they are. The only real chance at mitigation of the impacts from climate change that are now entrenched in the climate system, would have been to abandon capitalism and enact something akin to the New Green Deal back when NASA’s James Hansen sounded the alarm about climate Continue Reading
“It is appropriate in our worship that we make confession of our sins against creation. Having invoked the presence of God the Creator, having seen Earth as the sanctuary of our worship, having established our human solidarity with all creation, and having invited the whole Earth community into a chorus of praise, we must now acknowledge our broken relationship with Continue Reading
via Why the Right and the Centrists Attack Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Mark Davies
Re: this previously highlighted quote: “imagine what the cultural expression of climate change denial and avoidance does to compound the depression, anxiety, and grief! ” — Margaret Swedish in New Creation News https://buff.ly/2QGWyZx (re: the grief such as that written about in https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/climate-grief-growing-emotional-toll-climate-change-n946751 Imagine what the church’s silence on this, even in so-called “Progressive” denominations and church communities, does to Continue Reading
I probably linked to this a couple weeks ago (Christmas week), but can’t remember. But just in case, here it is again: https://www.nbcnews.com/…/climate-grief-growing-emotional-t… HT to Margaret Swedish for the reminder in her post this morning ) ‘Climate grief’: The growing emotional toll of climate change Extreme weather and dire climate reports are intensifying the mental health effects of global warming: depression and resignation about Continue Reading
This “imagine what the cultural expression of climate change denial and avoidance does to compound the depression, anxiety, and grief! ” — Margaret Swedish in New Creation News 12 days into 2019, where do things stand? [Okay, I should have announced that I would be taking a few weeks off from this blog, and I hope you haven’t missed me too much. Continue Reading
“…our restoration/reorientation through worship has tended to leave out an important, indeed crucial, relationship. We are reoriented to God, self, and the human community, but often we have experienced that reorientation without a self-conscious reorientation of our relationship with the rest of creation, which is the matrix in which we live and move and have our being. We are a Continue Reading
Our idiot President
This (the quote in the previous post) represents not any “rethinking” of Biblical theology, but a RECOVERY of what has been lost in our industrial/technological civilization, and, unfortunately submerged in Christian theology’s importing of civilizational values (aka in Scripture as “the world”).
