When churches “join the celebration” on July 4, I think the problem we face there has a slight similarity w/ the “Confederate Flag problem”, in that we can sometimes communicate an “all or nothing approval”, and rubber stamp a culture which worships at the shrine of America. When churches on Memorial Day weekend, which also “happens to be Pentecost Sunday” Continue Reading
Yes. And to that I would add the enormous, far-reaching, ongoing moral crisis of refusing to see the writingon the wall about what the scientists are telling us we are doing to the earth’s ability to sustain us. It doesn’t matter what our “OPINION” is, it is the ecosystem. It doesn’t care about our politics (except about that part which Continue Reading
Initially posted to my Facebook account: Every church denomination need to issue actual response to Pope’s theological work in LaudatoSi. Need constant, current updates of processing (ie. Not just go back into their past statements and “find a mention of ecology”. We need ongoing, updated, dialogue on what this means NOW, as things get much worse than they were back Continue Reading
Such an important theological parallel drawn by Brian D. McLaren in this podcast with Luke Norsworthy. “Fossil Fuels are the new slavery” (drawing on the same economic motivations to justify a “status quo” one wishes to maintain (and has interests which keep them “interested” and invested in seeing it that way). play a clip of this segment I’m talking about (this Continue Reading
I have come to the conclusion that it is time for churches to break through their hesitancy to raise the issue of climate change and join in with the millions around the globe who recognize the threat, which is coming primarily from our world’s use of fossil fuels. To realize that this is now already having huge impacts, at just Continue Reading
Added Richard Norgaard video to the “Seizing An Alternative” YouTube Playlist of my video from the PandoPopulus conference. Click the word “Playlist” on the Youtube panel below to see the list of videos I’ve uploaded so far from the conference.
Some may think this too “light” on this topic, but I like it.
Christians supposedly have had practice in embodying via lifestyle what they preach, but also do not forsake the message for all…I think its a false choice to say “don’t scare people with dire descriptions of the climate crisis but show them what can be done”. We must do both, but I have a better word than “scare”…the message is indeed Continue Reading
Meaning this one, here Theology is ultimately a dialogue, not just musings of an individual. But even that is to simplify the matter, since these “individual musings” have been forged in an ongoing theological dialogue over some 30 years of my experience in seriously contemplating and living theology, and being formed by numerous individuals and communities, each of them having Continue Reading
One of those days when I am looking back over 20 years of “Web” and grieving the loss of the sense of aliveness for dialogue. Today, we get “Likes”. I don’t begrudge them at all when I get them, but sometimes they serve to accentuate how we rarely go beyond those and into conversation. I REALLY thought that over a Continue Reading