Several memes that are popular “so what?” responses of those who push back against the idea that there is any serious Ecological Crisis going on. 1. It hurts the poor 2. New technologies will make it all better. 3. The U.S. is doing better than other nations. 4. Addressing the Ecological Crisis will harm the economy. 1. What Industrialized nations Continue Reading
This is an awesome post on AOC, and how she puts Trump and Ryan to shame on intellectual/academic creds. Just listening to her, it is clearly apparent that she is not only credentialed, but gifted and articulate.
This ( HT Deen Thompson)
The right wing uproar and energy seeking to laugh at @AOC is , itself, a gas. The “she lacks brains” line, and others like it, are the rage on right wing comments, including a UM Facebook group that is frequented mostly by right wing conservatives. LOL Anyone with some quality education can recognize articulate passion and vision. She’s not only Continue Reading
Excellent theology here. We need to wake up and recover the intimate relationship of Creation to the Salvation story of our Scriptures. Is Christianity To Blame For Climate Change?
The lie keeps rolling. Enough for making ones self richer but not to pay living wages. HT Deen Thompson
Should seem obvious, but such is greed and the ideological gullibility that is encouraged by morally and spiritually compromised entities calling themselves “churches”. They’ve lost their way and are deep into darkness.
For the umteenth time, I have seen a post of a denier joke meme of the same ignorant variety on the meme: “It’s cold outside, so global warming must not be real.” One of the best retorts to that I’ve heard is from Stephen Colbert: “I just ate, so world hunger must be a myth”. When I comment on such Continue Reading
NOt so much an idiot, but a profiteer with zero scruples. Corrupt, selfish, and spoiled. Ice Lady.
Ok. I keep hearing the right wing meme, cast at @AOC, “the world is not ending in 12 years” My reply to all repeating that like some kind of robotic “meme-imbibers”: You fail to understand the reference for that. There was an IPCC paper that talked bout the importance of the next 12 years (and the next 32). Look it Continue Reading
Perhaps this all has something to do with fossil fuel corporations and their executives being able to make trillions of dollars by keeping us from trusting what climate scientists are saying. Perhaps they think they can trust that these trillions of dollars will keep them safe when the climate is in chaos, but that is not trusting in God, that Continue Reading
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This post, written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech, observes how King’s years between that point and his “I’ve been the Mountaintop” speech delivered the night before his assassination, have not been explored much at all in the King “Holiday” messages. Those years do not “fit the narrative” desired for an “American hero”, so that his dream “that my four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” begins to sound more like “Be all that you can be”, and ignore what King was to explore in the days ahead, as he continued his path to uncovering what it was in America that was KEEPING it’s people from discovering what they were meant to be, and that it went beyond “pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps” and into the evils of not only racism but militarism and materialism (economic justice)
So, it seems that MLK , as do many of us as we grow, added to that dream in his last 5 years. As he saw what was involved in getting there to that mountaintop, the dream took on some new elements. The dream envisioned a larger context of what would have to happen to see the “ending”. For my my last 5 years (just short of that), I have seen the relevance of the Ecological Crisis to MLK’s dream. Drew Dellinger did research on the hints of MLK himself understanding this linkage. “All life is INTER-related.” he often said. And also “We’re not going to have peace on Earth until we understand the interrelated structure of all reality”.
Davies has seen this as well, for probably longer than I have.
“as we look at the global ecological challenges of our day, if we do not address them systemically, we will likely not make the progress necessary to avoid a major global ecological crisis in the first half of this century. A national holiday for Martin Luther King and a monument in Washington or even another March on Washington, although all good things, will by themselves not bring about equal opportunity – only systemic changes will do that. The celebration of Earth Day, curbside recycling, more efficient light bulbs, and better fuel efficiency, although all good things, will by themselves not bring about ecological sustainability – only more thorough systemic changes will do that. ”
Mark Davies is the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics and Director of the World House Institute for Social and Ecological Responsibility at Oklahoma City University. He is the Executive Director of the Leadership, Education, and Development (LEaD) Hub North America of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church and an Oklahoma Humanities State Scholar.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Forgotten Years, September 1963-1968.
Not doing his job, as usual, like he's always and forever NOT doing. https://t.co/J78XKFQIwC — Dale Lature (@dlature) January 17, 2019
The nerve of this woman, suggesting that the Congress behave as if they were NOT more deserving of basic needs and income and life comforts than the people they represent! The very idea!
