This post of mine from Sunday (and now in the previous blog post here http://ecoecclesia.org/?ecoecclesia=constantinianism-the-enabler-of-ecological-neglect) , has put me into a train of thought about something. If I were to give it a title* , it would be “Constantine and Climate Change”. It is a good introduction to this line of thought to quote the following : “It’s hard to Continue Reading
Constantinianism* is the enabler of Ecological neglect, since multiple national narratives depend on the “conveniences” afforded by the “power” of fossil fuel driven technologies, and are therefore lionized (aka , in this case, “idolized”). It leads to the enshrinement of an economic status quo that works against an economy based on true costs. The cost of ecological impacts are accelerating out Continue Reading
Come February 12 through 14, it will have been 40 years since I caught this miniseries, “King”, on NBC as a college senior. It was to be a formative experience, not so much because of it’s treatment (which was certainly very positive and inspiring at times) , but because of how it launched me on a years long quest to Continue Reading
I was thinking yesterday about my journey over the past 7 years. IN 2011, I started using occupytheology.org to point to my blog, which, that point, was using the one domain, theoblogical.org that I had been using since starting the blog in 2002. Now, as most of you know, it is primarily ecoecclesia.org. Theoblogical and occupytheology still get you there, Continue Reading
I have a bone to pick, sort of, re: the Women’s Marches. I am “with them” enough to join in any such marches, to be sure. This certainly needs to stir us up to the point of mobilizing for not only marching, but working “behind the scenes” wherever we can. But, I get the sense that our Ecological Crisis is Continue Reading
“Right-to-life” just might get more people helping to fight abortion and the conditions which make it increase, if they showed ANY concern about those conditions. And also, if they showed ANY interest in ALL of the other LIFE that is being extinguished and threatened every day by , things like, ya know, Climate Change (which is like an anathema to 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
The critic/opponents of Black Lives Matter seem identical to the opposition to MLK and the Civil Rights movement. Yet another example of a generation that has completely forgotten history, and repeating it. Really rankles that so many “Christians” are caught up in this. Much of this blame falls squarely on the churches, for ignoring this festering sore (and deeper infection) Continue Reading
the public’s money, which is really needed, should—in a sane world, it would be going towards paying for a transition to 100 percent renewable energy as quickly as technology allows, which is, in fact, very, very quickly, to be designed in a fair way, in a just way, which would mean that the people who have gotten the worst deal, Continue Reading
This video introduces a law firm “Client Earth”, who work with governments across the world to do what China has discovered: It’s in their interests to WAKE THE HELL UP. The Church, also, has a Reformation to perform. Call it a “Recovery” if you prefer, but that “Recovery” will create a Reformation. Martin Luther wanted to “Recover” what he saw 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
From Margaret Swedish this morning: This rapidly unfolding planetary crisis was brought to us by a way of life in the western economic world to which we have become accustomed. That is the beam in our eye that we miss when we are trying to remove the splinter of this regime of cultural insanity from the Facebook timeline of M.S. Continue Reading
Clicking on a blank area, or on the time and date link in the Twitter link below (from the Twitter account of Alex Steffen) will show an entire thread of posts, introducing the notion of “Predatory delay”. This is the force we are facing now with our Climate Crisis. What Houston shows us, yet again, is that we live in a Continue Reading
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