I’ve never been so convinced of the real dangers (and thus, the “heresy”) of Gnosticism, as I have become since my “Eco-conversion” back in the fall of 2014. The notion of the “Interrelatedness” of ALL things has made plain the danger of a dualism that separates us from the ecosystem on which we depend and from which we came. It has led to a posture toward the earth that is destructive of its processes. In light of the clear warnings about what is happening from the world’s climate scientists, the level of denial is staggering.

Even those who “side” with the Climate science and the “political left”, are failing to recognize that this constitutes a crisis that is absolutely unprecedented in world history. So far-reaching and destructive is this process of ecological unraveling, I am now convinced that it must be take a center stage in our notion of “Salvation” itself. Our Salvation must take on an apocalyptic; not in the “popular” sense of an “end of the world” , violent preoccupation, but in a dire call to awaken to what is happening. If we don’t, our puny dualisms will not only not save us at all, it will hasten our destruction.

That sound scary enough? It’s only when this becomes “scary enough” that we will be able to come out on the other side with a faith that depends on the communities that we have and their “conversion” to a sustainable future; a faith that is cognizant of the necessity of an uber-resilient movement that will not give up, and recognizes that the economic models that the world seems to have come to depend upon have led us to this Crisis.