As much as I can appreciate the 9/11 reflection here, I cannot help but be struck by how we are in desperate need for grieving/lamenting the loss not just of A (meaning singular) “view”, but worldwide damage of breathtaking scale, being undertaken as we speak, every day, for the past 50+ years (even longer, but most of us knew so Continue Reading

This reflection on “the poor you will have with you always” initiated a similar illumination for me regarding the “other issues” which are central to our mission , but call upon us to recognize a very important matter to “Salvation”, which is the Restoration of Creation as central to our being able to respond to any “issues”. We need our Continue Reading

I shared this post from Shane yesterday, but another area where “Christians” need converting is to the notion that Christians are called to be participants in “keeping” Creation (and the word “to keep” there is the same as the one used in one of the very next Genesis stories: “Am I my brother’s keeper”). Late 20th and early 21st century Continue Reading

I shared this post from Shane yesterday, but another area where “Christians” need converting is to the notion that Christians are called to be participants in “keeping” Creation (and the word “to keep” there is the same as the one used in one of the very next Genesis stories: “Am I my brother’s keeper”). Late 20th and early 21st century Continue Reading

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“Realities” that are both “real”….. The “content” of our character: the stuff that , in FTF, we don’t “wear on our sleeve” by habit or in a native/ default form. And we keep it behind a socail barrier that is all too often rare, and most tragically, in FTF church. I have found that people find out more about me Continue Reading

All of the comedic Facebook jokes happening, and as I watch the above, and laugh (cuz Colbert is funny)….I also cringe a little when I see how some of the “blame” for the sociopathic “enflaming” going on is a matter of “the world” expressing itself “writ large” by the microscope and archiving of this human garbage spewing. Do we take Continue Reading

Facebook has really botched user friendliness, for anyone who wished to search for something in their own timeline. That’s pathetic. It’s bad enough that users don’t really have access to their own timeline data without having a PhD level technical degree in the Facebook graph (and even then, their idea of what data belongs to the user who is the Continue Reading

I have just under 3 and a half months left here at 1801. The building has sold, and I have to find a new place, either my permanent place (the goal since last year at this time) , or another temporary place on the way to finding that “new home”. Covid has certainly been a gigantic monkey wrench in the Continue Reading

I’ve often mused about where we might be in Electric Vehicles if we had started back when the Ecological Crisis was brought to the public attention in a big way. (There WAS an early EV that was produced and leased to people back in the early 90’s, but that effort was “mysteriously” (or, NOT so mysteriously) stopped and literally torn Continue Reading