Yes. One listen to the New Atheist leaders and their constant barrage of pointing to literalist interpretations of the Christian scriptures, and you’ll know what is meant here. “Cringeworthy” is about the size of it. I’ve been “cringing” along with MUslim people of faith for some time now as I see Christians characterizing them in the same way New Atheists Continue Reading
https://youtu.be/DnvZAN27Iek sermon by Leah Schade
from “From Nature to Creation (The Church and Postmodern Culture): A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World” by Norman Wirzba – “The argument that we are doing poor people a favor by providing them cheap food loses its luster when we acknowledge that it is precisely the poor around the world who bear a disproportionate share of the Continue Reading
from “For Our Common Home: Process-Relational Responses to Laudate si’ (Toward Ecological Civilization Book 7)” by John B Cobb Jr, Ignacio Castuera “Diverse movements will be empowered by the encyclical. The only ones who are threatened are those who would like to continue their effort to establish their empire over the entire planet and the earth’s resources, privatizing the commons, Continue Reading
I am hoping that this is the case. It needs to happen, no matter what the strongest factors may be. It needs to happen , at the very least, because of the sheer scientific evidence and the consensus around that evidence. There is a gathering this week on Thursday : “Coming Together in Faith on Climate”, which is an ecumenical Continue Reading
It’s that time again when I want to check my comments system. After the WordPress install just before LaborDay, and then the adding of a new post type (EcoEcclesia), I want to check the health of my Social Comments plug-in for WordPress. So if you have just a fee seconds, try leaving a test comment and name sure there aren’t Continue Reading
we’re no longer operating from a paradigm of deviating from the status quo, or operating from the paradigm of looking at the challenge of climate change and what’s actually necessary Source: Tim DeChristopher on the Demand to End All New Fossil Fuel Leasing on Public Lands and Oceans | Democracy Now!
This post comes at the relationship between EcoEcclesia and OccupyTheology from opposite sides from the previous post. In the previous post, I reflected a bit upon why the Climate movement is like the Occupy movement, springing from similar and related sets of causes (the oligarchy’s continuous drive to further consolidate power and economic stranglehold. From another angle, OccupyTheology is Continue Reading
I just created a post type in WordPress for EcoEcclesia. EcoEcclesia , however, is also OccupyTheology, since I contend that it requires an action of “Occupying” the theologies, economies, and spaces of the status quo to ensure that a fundamental questioning must take place. The status quo which brought about the call to “Occupy” is no longer tenable, and that Continue Reading
I commented briefly under this article, posted to the United Methodist News Service Facebook page, and linked to this blog post for a longer reflection and call to action. So here is the longer version: This is SO good to see, one level. On another level, I have been deeply concerned about the silence of the churches, most of all, our Continue Reading
Another Facebook comment I wrote under a UMNS link (here) on Facebook has prompted a longer reflection that seems fitting as a blog post. It addresses the frustration I feel with the “theological obfuscation” in which Christians are habitually engaging. “To become a church that makes disciples of Jesus Christ equipped to transform lives, communities , and the world” is hard Continue Reading
Prosumer seems to have been abandoned (probably for quite some time). I need to stay current. I have a few customizations, especially WP Social Login, that I’ll have to move some code that is manually inserted into some theme pages. But I want my Social plugins to be extensible, so that I am no longer so dependent upon that custom code, Continue Reading
“the Earth and future generations need us all right now, every gift we have to give toward turning the tide of political power in our world.” – Margaret Swedish via this from Center for New Creation on Facebook, reacting to this news : Bonn Climate Talks Fail to Deliver Common Grounds Undermining Hopes of Meaningful Deal in Paris The world continues to Continue Reading
“God created all of us to dwell together in unity” from A.M.E. Council of Bishops Demand Action to Confront Racism in the U.S. linked from UMNS Indeed. Which also includes all of creation. ALL is created to dwell in unity. The very earth works that way. When we disrupt that unity, all hell breaks loose. So we must fight all disruption. Continue Reading
Good News is good in light of , and “sounds good” because of , the bad. The bad has brought us to believe that this is “the way things are” and “meant to be”. The Good News arrives as an announcement that “the way things are” is something else. It’s not Caesar, but the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of Continue Reading