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Let me float this theory: I hear constantly how we “just can’t let a man like Trump become President, because it will destroy everything we’ve worked for”. While I agree that Trump absolutely should not be elected, and that it would be a mockery and an opening of Pandora’s box in many ways, I also have to believe that, since Continue Reading
In the movie “Concussion”, a moving and disturbing and infuriating film, Roger Goodell says during a press conference ” I’m not a doctor, but this is an evolving science”. Sound familiar? This is a talking point from the ones for whom the science is threatening their bread and butter, and by extension, for the millions who want to continue to Continue Reading
I am thinking that our churches need to be thinking about how to craft a message that has any shot at communicating the enormity of the ethical implications of the Climate Crisis. I am thinking about , on this July 4, about the speech made by the fictional President (played by Bill Pullman) in the film “independence Day”, and his Continue Reading
I keep feeling the need to reiterate how CLOSE I am in thinking about the Trump/Clinton either/or choice to that of many of my friends who have decided that the risk of a Trump presidency is just too great to leave to chance, and therefore advocate for Clinton as THE alternative. For me, the line there is made up of Continue Reading
If churches can identify themselves as “Bible-believing” Churches ,or “Active in the Community”, “Reconciling (referring to their acceptance of GLBTQ members) , or “Justice” Churches, or constantly reveal their falling in line with the Christian Right by emphasizing, on a constant basis, thier “opposition” to the various lists of things on the Christian Right “Disapproval” items such as Gun Control, Continue Reading
I see it happening every day, in almost EVERY article now. We are all day, all channels, “Not-Trump” and what this does is ensure that we aren’t thinking about the Climate Crisis. Even though it is immensely obvious that Trump represents a lot of darkness, it is also spreading the dark cloud of Climate Crisis Denial to just continue on Continue Reading
Someone commented on the “How To Let Go” Movie Facebook page that they thought Josh was way too conservative on his science. That it’s even worse than he was indicating. And I thought, “Wow. I sure didn’t get that impression” Then I thought, “Wait, Are the various levels of intense numbers the thing that “increase our awareness”? Is it Continue Reading
I fully understand the fear of the Trump. I too fear that. But I also fear the art of the no-win situation; the “lesser-of-two-evils” that keeps us in a grid-lock that benefits no one but the most powerful, and continues to condemn millions to misery, poverty, and death. Something HAS to happen to stop it. I have seen many kindred Continue Reading
To the many “Facebook friends” and Theoblogical/EcoEcclesia Blog readers who see my frequent and often postings on our Ecological Crisis, and my insistence that we are in dire need of a Reformation that is as significant (even MORE, actually) and far-reaching and culture-shaping as that of the Protestant Reformation, and you want to tell me I’m being a bit over-dramatic Continue Reading
Hillary made it abundantly clear that she has next to no identification with the massive independent movement that the Sanders campaign brought into the DNC. Her responses to the Sanders campaign were horrendous, condescending, and revealing of how dangerously establishment she is. She has revealed how neocon international ideology has been adopted into the playbook of “liberal”. It obliterates the Continue Reading
Okay, here’s an example, from the UMC.org site’s “What We Believe” section. I pick on the UMC because this is what I identify as “My people” (since I could no longer say that about the Southern Baptists after a great “growing up” in that denomination prior to it’s dismantling as a diverse, loving, nurturing “home” as it turned to doctrinaire, Continue Reading
I’ve never been so convinced of the real dangers (and thus, the “heresy”) of Gnosticism, as I have become since my “Eco-conversion” back in the fall of 2014. The notion of the “Interrelatedness” of ALL things has made plain the danger of a dualism that separates us from the ecosystem on which we depend and from which we came. It Continue Reading
Hillary flatly refused to answer the question about the Goldman Sachs speech transcripts, after REPEATED insistent repeating of the question (by Dana Bash. See here ). What exactly is this? Is this acceptable? It’s quite concerning if you want to place candidate transparency at any level of importance. JUST ANSWER the question, Hillary. This should be a HUGE, AWFUL demerit Continue Reading
I would like to see many, many more of my Progressive friends take a cue from the Climate Denial of the Political and Religious Right, by not stopping short by just listing that denial as one of many things that can be criticized and ridiculed about them, and start doing the opposite of denial, by really accepting the reality of Continue Reading
What is it with the Church denominations on the Climate Crisis? The coverage seems to be be declining rather than taking a sharp turn upward and beginning to act like they understand what’s at stake. This is a colossal ethical problem. To stay out of the issue in their coverage is tantamount to a blasphemous bow to the forces of Continue Reading