“Worship is a symbiotic relationship between God and the worshipping community. God is giving and acting, and worshippers are responding in faith. Although the word ‘worship’ implies that it is predominantly about what we do, worship is really preeminently about what God is doing. God is actively present in all of God’s Trinitarian fullness—forgiving, offering God?s self in the proclamation Continue Reading
Why a Season of Creation? There are many reasons! Here [ is the 6th of ] seven of them: Sixth, because this season enables us to celebrate the many ways in which Christ is connected with creation. From the mystery of the incarnation to the mystery of a cosmic Christ who reconciles all things in heaven and Earth, we celebrate Continue Reading
Why a Season of Creation? There are many reasons! Here [ is the 5th of ] seven of them: Fifth, because a fresh focus on the wonders and wounds of creation will help us in positive ways to love creation and so care for creation as our personal vocation and our congregational ministry. Worshiping with this new awareness may well Continue Reading
Still going strong, and on the increase, as the physical and political and economic world around us disintegrates. A Facebook memory from 1 year ago:
“the United States’ shunned the opportunity to take on any sort of leadership role over the looming problem of climate change, a reality so problematic that the Department of Defense is openly worried about the consequences. Instead, the U.S. banded with a small cadre of four oil-dominated nations (including Saudi Arabia) and objected to the recent damning UN climate report. Continue Reading
From my Facebook Memories, 2 years ago: It is just flat out gnosticism to suggest that there is ANYTHING that is off the table in the church that concerns the well-being of people, communities, or nations, or the earth. NOTHING. Gnosticism claims that we can keep our soul and body separate; that salvation is a “purely spiritual” matter (that phrase Continue Reading
Normal And Patriotic People by Mark Davies- The Oklahoma Observer https://buff.ly/2SZJpft A similar cartoon could show some WCA** people pointing to GLBTQ people seeking full inclusion, saying “No way, they will destroy us”, while the Ecological Crisis continues to worsen. (*** Wesleyan Covenant Association within the UMC movement to encourage split over the GLBTQ Full-inclusion issue)
“God places Adam in the garden of Eden to “till and to keep it. The Hebrew words here that describe Adam’s vocation consist of abad and shamar. The former means to serve,” even to the point of being a slave. The latter not only means “to keep. but also “to watch or preserve.” God puts Adam (and Eve) in the Continue Reading
I have been told I don’t know how many times, by people who seem irritated at my “obsession” with the Ecological Crisis, that they “certainly” believe that “we should be good stewards of the earth”, and that I never “seem satisfied” with that answer. But here is exactly why I continue to press about the urgency of this, and now Continue Reading
It is a gnostic trait to turn a blind eye to the policies of a government claiming to be “of, by, and for the people” as if there is some larger “spiritual reality” that renders public failure to “love our neighbor” as insignificant and “political” (as if “political” deals only with “ideas” and the opposing tribes of thought on those Continue Reading
Many conservatives might identify ecological crisis writing as “The Sky is Falling” writing, since it knows what the science is telling us about what we’ve known, when we’ve known it, and what our responses have been. But one might as well call the Bible a “Sky is Falling” book, since it begins with an affirmation (“it is good”) that is Continue Reading
For those interested in the science, history, and politics (and ultimately, the theology) of the Ecological Crisis in this country, there is a major feature run by the New York Times Magazine this week: https://www.nytimes.com/…/…/climate-change-losing-earth.html This is a major “Doctrinal” issue for the church, in that this issue, and the outrageous denial and political battle it has precipitated, has blinded Continue Reading
discovered on Facebook via Kevin Lyon via Achilles Gaubert
A previous post on my Facebook Timeline about an hour or two ago with Joan Chittister addressing the issue of “Pro-Life”, is made even more poignant in that , over the past 4 years, I have become increasingly conscious of how our Ecological Crisis poses what is the greatest threat to life that we humans have yet concocted. To call Continue Reading
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