I’ve been struck, lately, by a sense that maybe the authors of the Genesis Creation account that says: “the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters”, were expressing the deep felt appreciation and attraction to the connection we have to the wonders Continue Reading
We need a church where we can deal with our darkness; our sense of existential threat that we see unfolding, and see that a scary amount of humanity is nowhere near seeming ready to face, so that some sort of response can come forth. When the church helps us keep all this at arms length or out of sight, it Continue Reading
Something has been eating at me psychologically this past 24 hours. Upon yet another exposure to some nasty trolling behavior by a “Christian” Fundamentalist on the page of a good friend and fellow earth keeper, Terry Tremwel, I have been struck with the danger in this kind of “Christianity”. It is far worse than other kinds of political or even Continue Reading
“Until a century or so ago, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had been steady at around 260 to 280 parts per million for thousands of years. By last spring we raced past 410 parts per million and CO2 concentrations continue to steadily increase.” http://ow.ly/8JvY30f5YUb And , for me, I wonder just how long down this road we , as Continue Reading
How many more “Record Storms” and “Record Floods” and “Record Wildfires” and “Record Heatwaves” and “100 year this and that” are we going to have to have before we start seeing churches , in masse, confessing as to their complicity in the biggest destruction and injustice known in human history? I’m talking sheer consequences and wide reach here, not any Continue Reading
The thing Bill McKibben said in the interview I read yesterday, and posted in my timeline yesterday, still sticks with me. Seems it is the way I am feeling it as well: “The job seems to be just to get up in the morning and figure out what one can do with maximum effect that day to change the odds a little Continue Reading
This article on Climate Crisis Denial (http://projectearth.us/why-you-shouldnt-call-climate-deniers-stupid-1797860254) and the comments on this shared by the folks at Years of Living Dangerously (see https://www.facebook.com/YearsOfLiving/posts/1462319603855093 ) highlights something else the church will have to start taking seriously as we try to comprehend and respond to the denial of our ecological situation in this culture. This is a matter of utmost importance Continue Reading
We can and do remember mothers who are no longer with us in the way we were accustomed, as supportive, nurturing physical and emotional presence as we made our way in the world. But as that physical presence moves on, we can also look to our mother earth, whose physicality keeps nurturing us, and from whose life we and our Continue Reading
Sooo looking to visiting with Church of the Saviour folks when I visit this coming Saturday, as people from around the country converge on DC for marches at either end of the week of April 22-29 (The March for Science and The People’s Climate March, respectively). The Church of the Saviour has always, I felt, “done Church right”. I knew Continue Reading
I’ve been sitting on a gold mine of content, yet to be “exploited”, for EcoEcclesia features, for over a year now. It’s been a long struggle on many levels. One of the lesser struggles I’ve had over that time, but nevertheless key to my moving my EcoEcclesia efforts to the next level, is to begin to break through with effective Continue Reading
I am compelled to voice my concern that the Climate movement NOT wait to seriously mobilize until that March on April 29. We need to act after the shameful, irresponsible “hurry vote” of the sellouts of the GOP (excepting ONE, Susan Collins, apparently the only non-denier amongst those gutless turds called the GOP). I admit that I am not one Continue Reading
I feel that we in the People’s Climate movement, and those in the interfaith community should not be waiting for the Climate March on April 29 to act on our outrage that Pruitt has been confirmed; much less the corrupt , un-accountable, rushed nature of such a vote, pushed by that ultimate of “Patron Compromiser” , idiot “leaders”, Mitch McConnell. Continue Reading
And in this case, “Green” is NOT good, if you know what I mean. I agree very much with Jeremy. This whole post of his (also copied and pasted below) is a sweeping condemnation of not only Trump’s conflicts of interest and illegal profit-driven scheme of his to cash in on the Presidency at the expense of the American people, but Continue Reading
In September of 2014, while reading Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate”, I crossed into a life-changing re-focusing of my vocation of trying to help the Church be the Church and provide Communication and Online Community tools, to sharpening and focusing those tools on the task we face in a Climate Crisis. Now, just over two years Continue Reading
http://www.billmckibben.com/deep-economy.html This is one book that I consider to be really important for the church. These models set forth in this book show how communities (“Cities set on a hill, in theological parlance) need to be working , as much as possible, toward self-sufficiency, to stem the tide of massive transportation of goods from far away places. I just noticed Continue Reading
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