Saw this posted by an old college friend from Facebook (from here) , and had a little “perspective” of my own to add below it: So let’s keep THIS in perspective: The President of the United States just pardoned a racist bigot who defied the Civil Rights Laws and was and STILL is proud of it. The President of the Continue Reading
While there is much to celebrate in seeing Trump and his minions falling apart before our eyes, and his bases withering in the face of mass protest, we still have a huge problem: This Climate Crisis ( Actually, even more so now that so many have effectively loosened their grip on due diligence on continuing to fight for sanity in Continue Reading
“You might say we are blinded by our measurements. As a result, when the economy experiences a recession or a crash, next to nobody questions whether the system itself is sound and sustainable. The only question is how to get it growing again at its pace of extraction, consumption, and destruction. About this consumptive way of life, the economist Herman Continue Reading
I am struck this morning, while reading Naomi Klein’s account of various uprisings in different countries being saddled with austerity/shock treatments, that our country may well have brought on the Trump phenomenon by basically missing the opportunity to self-correct ,or heed the voices crying out during the Occupy movement of 2011-2012. Five years down the road, when the camps are Continue Reading
Watch this video on The Scene.
Keynote delivered by Bill McKibben in the dining hall at Mount Olivet United Methodist Church in Arlington, Virginia, Friday, April 28, 2017
This first paragraph is a repost of a Facebook status update from yesterday as reports came in of Congress rushing through “repeal ACA” votes under the cover of darkness. What follows is a comment I added almost immediately to elaborate on EVIL. Is there any more doubt in anyone’s mind that this Congress prefers darkness? They work their evil while Continue Reading
This page : http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/eco-justice under the “Ministries” tab actually shows up as a drop down from the Home page, so they have the best “presence” yet found. This is not exactly a glowing report. As I have been maintaining, this seems to me to be warranting a significant, theologically challenging and reformation-inducing confrontation that strikes at the core of who Continue Reading
EVANGELISM , a theological staple, must become MUCH MORE about the “GOOD News” about the BAD News that is growing year by year: which is that Humankind, drunk on it’s “miracles” of production , driven by fossil fuels, has alternatives. And it is going to take the kind of local, national, and global collaboration that we already need to battle Continue Reading
I had this comment to make as I got trollled in a thread on The Hill (which is the norm there, as it is absolutely overrun with right wing trolls). This one was in a thread under an article that was titled “Sanders courts Trump voters”, which is a terrible title based on the quote from Sanders that prompted it, Continue Reading
Saw a couple of these today as I went out. My first thought was, and what of the Lack of markers of the turning of seasons? The coming of winter? And the invoking of Jesus as “the reason”, as if that invoking is sufficient to represent some universally accepted theology (which it is FAR from doing, most least of all Continue Reading
The Paris climate talks present a lowest common denominator of global politics, not the aspirations of the global community. It’s the people on the streets who provide the real hope for addressing the climate crisis. – David Turnbull Source: Oil Change International responds to Paris climate agreement – Oil Change InternationalOil Change International
For a few months now, Hootsuite removes links and quoted material from posts when selecting Facebook as a recipient of the post. These things are NOT something that Facebook itself denies from the User standpoint, but through their API, since I can go to the Facebook site and post such a thing as a a user. But I’m having to copy the Continue Reading
Added some custom code to my theme header so that my site shows a title that fits the name according to the link with which they came in (theoblgical, occupytheology, or ecoecclesia)
I cannot help now, but think — when I see or have cause to think about a depiction in the Superman stories — of the people of Krypton’s reaction to Jor-El’s warnings about the fate of their planet. Sure, this is a modern mythology story, but the archetype here is valid: That “a way of life” has a strong Continue Reading
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