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.
Obama told reporters that although he wants the country to move completely away from fossil fuels at some point, domestic oil and natural gas production is still necessary in the short term. via Obama defends Arctic drilling decision | TheHill. When we frame this in terms like “short term” and “long term”, we get a good indication that the two Continue Reading
Bill McKibben speaks truth, and Obama went a long way toward answering the question as to whether or not he has turned a corner toward becoming the leader in the White House on this issue of climate. This, 18 months before the next election, indicates he still doesn’t get it. what’s most extreme here is the irresponsibility of Shell, now Continue Reading
I have commented at least a couple of times (probably on Twitter and Facebook) about how we have all these flavors of churches in the U.S. that emphasize certain theological approaches and put forward their own “selective canon” of Scriptures (all groups do this, according to the narrative they want to emphasize). But that a group “wants” to emphasize a certain narrative 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
Eschatology: the end or goal of time/reality/life…not emphasizing “judgment day” as punishment and revenge of God upon evil, but as the purpose of the Kingdom of God to redeem/renew Apocalypse: the literature that utilizes certain imagery to tell an eschatological narrative; the “upheaval” or “great evil” being experienced is the imagery employed to provide a narrative of the directing of Continue Reading
“I am so grateful to Ta-Nehisi Coates* for expressing so well the frustration I feel watching the media coverage of the protests in Baltimore. I believe in non-violence not just as a tactic, but as a way of life. Yet I cannot stomach the indignant condemnation of young people throwing stones and looting stores when those same indignant politicians and Continue Reading
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