So, here’s a bit from the Presbyterian website, on a page about an Advocacy Training” in April 2016:
At Compassion Peace and Justice Training Day, we will take a look at how Presbyterians are working to address the suppression of political and economic rights of people of color, immigrants, workers, and the poor in our own country and abroad. We will examine how decisions that affect the global economy, our day-to-day life, and the well-being of the entire global community are being made in secret with little or no transparency or accountability.
— from https://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/washington/advocacy-training-weekend-2016/
My question is this: How is it that such a call (and well articulated) can somehow omit ANY MENTION of Climate anywhere in the entire page of descriptions and details about the event? Now I don’t doubt that SOMEONE , SOMEWHERE during that event will be talking about it, but what’s with the entire marketing of the event that doesn’t even consider it worth mentioning (as it represents a HUGE social justice impact! HUGE! )These kinds of things are what add to my growing discomfort with the apparent hesitancy of Church denominational bodies to take up the Climate fight.
I looked at the Presbyterian Church webiste this morning to begin updating myself on what various denominations might have begun to say about the Climate Crisis since Paris and since the Pope’s Encyclical. The only thing I found was a link that MIGHT have something in it to indicate a sense of urgency about Climate. (Urgent enough to warrant a mention among many issues that fall under a category of “social justice advocacy”). But none was to be found.
So I move on to look at the others. I am looking now at HOME pages and “One level deep” links I might find that would be raising the issue of the church’s activity on Climate. If I cant find anything EVEN at the secondary level, I think we have a real problerm.
Blog Post: More of the “˜Indirect Climate Crisis Denial”™ in obviously related causes (in Church Denominational News) https://t.co/fe8Js3OyXL
Blog Post: More of the “˜Indirect Climate Crisis Denial”™ in obviously related causes (in Church Denominational News) https://t.co/JnGwVfgIPR
Blog Post: More of the “˜Indirect Climate Crisis Denial”™ in obviously related causes (in Church Denominational News) https://t.co/OWU3jfLuBP