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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
What I am trying to say in my previous post is that I think that the UMC, like other mainline denominations, do not know how to talk about the Climate Crisis. This is part of the problem of not having an eco-centered theological education base from which to be formed in that way. One way I think we will begin Continue Reading
I’m so sick of “Emo Prog”, “angry” characterizations, which leave me feeling that it is “politically uncorrect” to be angry at what has happened to our bought and sold “Democracy” (and there, I revealed my own ANGER. Please set aside your “measured” position and look at just why this anger exists, and spare me the argument that it is “extreme”, Continue Reading
One could say that it has been 25 years since the world has really begun to hear the most pressing concerns of the Climate Science community. Since then, we really don’t have any excuses for how long we’ve allowed things to simply continue (to continue systematically poisoning the ecosystem in unprecedented ways; “unprecedented” in the history of the planet. Continue Reading
There’s a menu dropdown titled “Advocate for Justice” which includes “Understand the issues”, so selecting this from the dropdown yields a page that includes “Environment” with two links, compared to 8-12 listings under other areas like “Economic Justice”. All of this sure shouts to me that some serious updating of their categories and thinking about Climate is in order. They Continue Reading
A study on right wing “studies” article offers this depiction of “the arguments” the Right has vs Climate Change. Seems accurate. three basic messages: (1) Climate change isn’t happening. (2) If climate change were happening, that would still be OK, because climate change is good for you. (3) Even if climate change were happening and it was bad, the solution Continue Reading
Denial of science is MUCH MORE DESTRUCTIVE today than when the Church in the Middle Ages denied the science of Copernicus. It was an easy matter and of no real consequence for the life of the inhabitants of the planet that so many Christians fell in line with the old world view, “because the Bible.” Now, things are different. Ignoring Continue Reading
There’s no area of life and politics where “The Middle” is more damaging than in the Climate Crisis. It keeps people staying out of the topic and simply ignoring it, since , in the judgement of “The Middle”, it is “unsettled”. It caused a good friend of mine of 30 years to eventually cut off ties with me (which really Continue Reading