From a friend on Facebook:“Still one of the best core statements of ecological truth ever – and especially now when so many would like to shred this fabric of our ecological reality into little pieces. With this reminder: individualism is a lie.” “It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable Continue Reading
A similar image is that Earth itself is disposable. According to some popular views, Earth will continue to deteriorate until its final destruction at the hands of God. Before that day of wrath, however, the faithful will be caught up in the rapture to escape the final conflagration. Earth itself is destined for destruction, as if God would slough off Continue Reading
EARTH AS DISPOSABLE; HEAVEN-ISM AS SIN: One reason we have sinned against creation is that we have focused on an other-worldly religion to the detriment of Earth. We have relegated God to heaven and to a life after death, seeing this world merely as a place of pilgrimage or even just as a place for human mastery. This view may Continue Reading
The new Gutenberg blocks have a quote block that will not show up when I save a page using it’s styles, which show just fine in the editor, but when I view the page the quote is turned to italics, and the solid vertical line to the left of the quote that shows in the editor is also missing on 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
“This biblical revelation of how the glory of God fills Earth-and indeed all of creation—does not claim that creation itself is God. We do not worship creation. God’s presence is “in, with, and under” every aspect of this world, as Martin Luther teaches us. Of course, the most powerful and definitive revelation of God’s glory is seen in the person Continue Reading
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
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
“For all its inspiration, for all the lives it has changed, the Bible is undeniably problematic. Put in the hands of egocentric, unloving, or power-hungry people or those who have never learned how to read spiritually inspired literature, it is almost always a disaster.” — Richard Rohr And: “Just as the Bible takes us through many stages of consciousness and history, Continue Reading
““scientists believe that we evolved to be more relaxed in natural spaces.” — From a Facebook post linked article.Gives further credence to the idea of natural revelation, for which the Scriptures themselves are witness. Some theologians have called the natural world one of “two Scriptures”; one of written word, the other of God revealed through Creation.
