So here (also shown below), on UMNS’s Facebook page, they posted an article “News Poll:Top 2015 stories” , polling UM Communications workers, and Climate didn’t make the top 5. And I commented that this is symptomatic of the problem of neglect (and dare I say, “repression”; pushing such realities out of view and only bringing them up when it is 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
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 have been “stalling” under the guise of “determining my brand/style” for EcoEcclesia and the dream/goal of launching a Webcast network using my now 3 and a half month-old Tricaster Mini. Dennis Benson, my friend and Communications seminary professor from my days at United Theological Seminary (1990-91) was expressing to me yesterday his sense of urgency that such missions as this Continue Reading
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
Just posted this on the Facebook page of The United Methodist News Service (here) : The United Methodist Church, along with all the other denominations and Christian Communities, need to take their cue from Pope Francis and focus on the reformation that is REQUIRED in Christian theology around the globe. The level of threat to which we have brought the Continue Reading
NaomiAKlein : “Social movements move the bar, so that the next time we come to the table, what is politically possible is aligned with what is physically necessary” on @DemocracyNow (on YouTube)
That so many, especially in the church, have succumbed to a position of ignoring the truths about how our way of living has brought humanity to a place of dire emergency. When I talk about this, the silence and changing of the subject is striking. Even amongst people who say they believe that the climate is changing and that we Continue Reading
This from Climate Progress: Obama Is ‘Delusional’ For Saying Climate Change Is A Major National Security Threat, Fiorina Says The delusion is what she has apparently accepted; the delusion that Climate Science is some sort of political conspiracy by liberals to redistribute the wealth and destroy that most wonderful of discoveries: that fossil fuels will save us a lot of Continue Reading
I’d like an update from UMNS (United Methodist News Service) on the article from about 6 weeks ago, looking forward to the Paris Climate ( #COP21 ) talks (http://www.umc.org/news-and-media/seeking-climate-justice-in-pariss) Yesterday and today, there were marches held to call to account the Paris COP21 meetings to hear the world’s people and resist the accomodation of corporations and the Fossil Fuel industry. Continue Reading
I looked at the various denominations’ websites Home Pages back in 2011 at the beginnings of the Occupy Movement, to look for how seriously the various denominations took their role as prophetic voices for economic justice. The home pages didn’t seem to reflect much of a consciousness of the importance of the economic crisis at that moment. Now, as Pope 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
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