“You purchased this item on September 23, 2014.”

This is the Amazon banner at the top of the Screen when I call up the listing for Naomi Klein’s This changes Everything.

This is where the big change happened for me.  Reading this.  It brought together 30 years of ecotheological rumblings that finally burst out of my consciousness and into a new realization of its significance.  (The Cover,  then the back cover with Naomi Klein and Capitalism vs The Climate,  as subtitles)

Something clicked as I read further (and I’m not sure what did it for me…maybe the combination of science and stories;  those stories Naomi identified as “Blockadia”;  linking Climate Science on Climate Change to people around the world,  in those “Sacrifice Zones”  (recalling Hedges in “Days of Destruction , Days of Revolt”) ;  and the whole scenario became much more personal,  and I was finally able to “let it in” — that horror and urgency to respond,  and to realize that here is the king of all Denials in which the Church has passively participated,  refusing (at worst)  (or “neglecting”, at best)  to “let in” the massive implications for theology in our time (and for all time,  at least the past 600 years of Manifest Destiny and expansion.  The Tower of Babel rises again.

From Naomi Klein to my theological friends,  to whom I then turned to look at the resources we have in the Christian tradition (and beyond) ,  going first to Brian McLaren’s book (titled, interestingly enough “Everything Must Change”) for bibliographic references and to recall his constant prodding in the area of ecotheology I’ve read in his books over the past two decades, beginning with A Generous Orthodoxy – my first-read of his books)

(Music, Floating videos flying by with foretastes of what is coming in the opening shows: Leah Schade, Tyler Sit, Norman Wirzba, those whose video I have already shot, as I describe the purpose of the Webcast “EcoEcclesia: The Network of Inescapable Mutuality” )

So begins the 30-second spot announcing the immanent release of my Webcast series, “EcoEcclesia: The Network of Inescapable Mutuality”.  The Subtitle is from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter From The Birmingham Jail.  I’ve shot 3 Skype conversations (actually 4,  2 with one of my initial guests and “colleagues” in this mission to enable and be a resource for churches in the journey toward what one conference I attended called “An Ecological Civilization”*

(*Pando Populus and “Seizing An Alternative: Toward An Ecological Civilization” conference in Claremont California this past June, 2015.)