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There is also work to be done in study. Every revolutionary movement needs people who think and study and write and analyze. A revolution is not sustainable if there are only people on the street. via Models and Authorizations: An Interview with Walter Brueggemann. — Theology of Ferguson — Medium. Somewhere in this mention I find myself, or wish to Continue Reading
A devastating neglect of nature and its requirements, matched to unprecedented wealth , are the “strongest†marks of modernity as the triumph of free-market magic. Here an irony surfaces: “Free riders†are scorned by capitalist industrial orders, yet these same orders are saddled with a free-rider problem they barely recognize. “Free riders†are those who consume more than their share Continue Reading
Creation justice is not bereft of antecedents. Indigenous peoples across the globe have tried their best since the onset of colonization, conquest, and the Industrial Revolution to say that the community of life’s own integral functioning was being violated by foreign notions of justice and human organization that did not recognize that peoples and their lands were inextricably linked together. Continue Reading
via Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Policing & Noam Chomsky | Democracy Now!.
the very purpose of eco-nomics in the biblical world carries new force on this side of modern economics; namely, to cultivate the material conditions for the continuation of life. Rasmussen, Larry L. (2012-10-02). Earth-honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key (p. 150). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition. Amen! It seems obvious, but not when you look at our present Continue Reading
From Earth -Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key (which would make a great textbook for a class in EcoTheology 101) The chief obstacles will be the political-economic and sociocultural dimensions of ways of life that remain addicted to fossil fuels, that have not yet come to terms with the limits of planetary systems, that assume happiness and fulfillment Continue Reading
Bill McKibben published his thoughts on what the deal with China means and doesn’t mean. One stood out forme. It is not remotely enough to keep us out of climate trouble via The Big Climate Deal: What It Is, and What It Isn’t | Bill McKibben We need to rid ourselves and our leaders from the notion that “finally” we’re actually doing Continue Reading
Karen Armstong wrote this: to which Harris has posted a rather rude, incomplete, shallow retort in the style of his usual blanket assertions about the inanities of religion and the superiority of his New Atheism. I am hopeful that Armstrong’s winsome depiction of Islam will shame and enlighten them, as it has me. They will discover that Hassan al-Banna Continue Reading
Senator Inhofe (set to become the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee) quoted the Bible (Genesis 8:22) to support his thesis. “My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous,†he said. Genesis 8:22 Continue Reading
Larry Rasmussen , writing about Bonhoeffer, also aptly describes what we need to respond to the climate crisis: to see through the passive, blind, denial of the dire consequences toward which we are allowing ourselves to be pulled. Resist the beginnings of compromises that dull the moral senses and take their ease in a life of cheap grace. Resist the Continue Reading
Presently reading Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key by Larry Rasmussen, who gives a lecture on the topic here. Key quote:: If Social Justice itself is not henceforth also Creation justice, then it too will fail. via The 2014 Lazareth Lecture: Dr.LarryRasmussen – YouTube.
Liberation Theologian Leonardo Boff, on ecosystem: That is why I am extending the intuitions of liberation theology and demonstrating their validity and applicability for the questions enveloping the Earth, our bountiful mother. – Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor (Ecology & Justice) (Kindle Locations 167-168). Orbis Books. Kindle Edition. This speaks to me in my quest to express ecotheological Continue Reading
Gleaned from the Tweet stream earlier, from David Dark’s link: Fox News and the entire conservative media-industrial complex have no real interest in Republican governance. They thrive on conflict and on opposition via The GOP’s Plan To Do Nothing « The Dish. Absolutely. Clearest indication I’ve yet seen that the end REALLY IS the power. Fuck the governing. Thtat’s just Continue Reading
There is still time to avoid catastrophic warming but not within the rules of capitalism as they are currently constructed. From NYT review As the science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson observed, when it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check. This is what is so hard, if not seeming impossible, to tell the people Continue Reading
Do today’s faith communities understand that good news to the poor might imply addressing and ending the conditions that create poverty? via Joerg Rieger on Deep Solidarity – Boston Poverty Consortium. Decades ago, the Brazilian Bishop Dom Hélder Câmara put it this way: “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they Continue Reading