Wes Jackson speech (Sunday AM plenary at @PandoPopulus conference)
Video from PandoPopulus, ( Click here to begin at 24:50 is when Wes Jackson begins speaking)
Category Archives: Occupy Theology
“An evangelism of ecology” Let’s do it.
Yes! Pope Francis devotes an entire chapter of the encyclical to the need for an “ecological conversion†among Christians, “whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them. Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or Continue Reading
A New “Earth-Honoring Faith” is required; a new Reformation
“By asserting that nature has a value in and of itself, Francis is overturning centuries of theological interpretation that regarded the natural world with outright hostility—as a misery to be transcended and an ‘allurement’ to be resisted.” – Naomi Klein in “A Radical Vatican?” via The New Yorker Yes, Naomi, it is a STEEP theological legacy that must be reformed. But Continue Reading
Is the Climate Crisis to become an issue of major emphasis and effort for the church?
another choice quote from the above article by Naomi Klein: We’re here because many powerful Church insiders simply cannot be counted upon to champion Francis’s transformative climate message—and some would clearly be happy to see it buried alongside the many other secrets entombed in this walled enclave. – Naomi Klein in “A Radical Vatican?”, New Yorker Magazine I get this same sense Continue Reading
Issues raise question for United Methodists: ‘Will the unity Hold?’ No mention of climate crisis
Building on my last post here, I saw an article on UMNS , here, entitled “United Methodists achieve milestones despite differences” , and began the article with this: Different viewpoints over societal changes have led some to speculate whether the unity of The United Methodist Church will hold when its top legislative body meets in May 2016. (the linked article Continue Reading
Tweaking/Reorienting our theology for the Anthropocene
As I have been posting this morning about the “acceptance of Climate Change” at a level required for us to “get it” regarding the urgency of the crisis it represents, I am once agin reminded and brought back to something Tim DeChristopher said in these reflections he offered when I asked him to say a few words about why he Continue Reading
“Extricating ourselves” from the fossil fuel economy and its realities?
“Extricating ourselves is going to be much harder than Ms Klein likes to acknowledge.” the above quote appears in the longer text below, which is a comment submitted by Murray Reiss under an article by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark “The liberal attack on Naomi Klein and ‘This Changes Everything’ “ on the Climate & Capitalism website Foster and Continue Reading
Love this tweet from Nathan Schneider (@nathanairplane)
But don’t worry, “the pope is not an economist.” @EndPovertyUSA @americamag — Nathan Schneider (@nathanairplane) July 2, 2015 (And yeah, I RT’d it and trying to embed it on Facebook. May just have to copy the text. )
Problems with “American holidays” and Churches
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
Agree with Robert Reich’s “Moral Crisis” post, and then some
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
Dialogue needed across all Church bodies (Protestant, Catholic, Evangelical, etc.)
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
Naomi Klein and Tim DeChristopher on Climate/Economy as Prophetic
Reading “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate” literally changed my life. I read it as soon as it came out last fall, and it was during the reading of it that I turned a corner in my heart and mind, such that I would never again be able to look at the Climate Crisis in the same relatively detached Continue Reading
My comment on the lack of Church News coverage of the Climate Crisis
Just posted this to a UMNS article (here, and the comment link is here ) on Facebook: Since I was unable to find a single post over the past 3 months here that even remotely dealt with Climate Change, I might as well post here since it (the post under which I placed this comment was about the possible effects of Continue Reading
My latest “Blasphemy” (another theological radicalization due to the Climate Crisis)
The Pope’s #Encyclical is MORE important than the Bible right now. ( the Bible as typically interpreted, that is). But even rightly interpreted, given our present crisis, we don’t have time to retrain and re-teach an ecological Biblical narrative. That would take some years of doing, since it would have to UNDO centuries of an age-old heresy of humanity considering Continue Reading
.@BrianMcLaren and @LukeNorsworthy talk Slavery, Theology, and Fossil Fuels
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