Modern day Gnostics
The “Christian Right” are the modern day Gnostics. They seem to easily adapt their “spirituality” to an ethic and a concept of a Kingdom that is detached from the lives of people where they are, and cling instead to some romanticized, “knowledge/docgtrinal based” system of verbal confession. One must “pose things in the right wording’ in order to be among Continue Reading
Eco-Idolatry? Theological Nonsense
(This post was originally posted two years ago today, on Facebook. It showed up today on my Facebook “Memories”) I am intrigued with the eagerness people seem to have to “expose” eco-theological concerns as some form of idolatry, and thus apostasy. It strikes me as rather blind to the clear ecological consciousness of Scripture; which should be recognized from the very Continue Reading
“Beginning(s) of the End”
Looks like another wedding weekend is happening across the street. Clumps of people (6-7) coming and going, maskless, in and out of the building yesterday, for what would seem to fit the pattern of a rehearsal dinner. I’ll be looking later on to see if the same behavior persists (wedding attenders of the ceremony plus reception, mask-less, singing, celebrating). I Continue Reading
Don’t Be A Vector
Great 3 minute explanation of Covid-19 and why this is an important hashtag: #DontBeAVector (HT Rebekah Sides)
The Mob Feds
After Trump said he would send agents to more cities, Philly’s district attorney lays out how he might criminally charge federal officers. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/philly-d-a-threatens-to-arrest-federal-agents
Hey Covid, this is just “Off the record”
I saw some pictures of a party , most of them with people in them at distances of over 6 feet AND wearing masks. One picture, at a closer distance (about 3 feet), had a “Masks On” version AND a “No-Masks” version. Do these people think that they can basically say to the virus (“Off the record here, this is Continue Reading
Gnostic-y church services
I had to get out of my space until a church service rehearsal and live stream to follow is over. I sometimes just don’t have the patience or desire to keep hearing “praise choruses” that say nothing but how “God is great” and “his name is holy”. God is those things, I believe, but I also worship a God who Continue Reading
Our House
The song that’s been echoing since it was featured in “This Is Us” this past week. Not been easy.
Upcoming book on Greta
What a story. Inspiring. And much for us to ponder as we plumb the depths of our own denial, and how often and to what extent we insist on “salvaging” our own ways of living, despite the evidence that it is killing everything around us.
Blog neglect
Four and a half months! That’s how long since I posted in WordPress on my blog! It’s been an ordeal that has torn me away, with the sale of the house, in the midst of and as a result of the divorce. I’ve been devastated, to say the least. I’m in Cincinnati, staying “at 1801” (which is 1801 Mills Ave.) Continue Reading
Toward a genter, kinder, “smaller living” world
I am just starting to look into this, but the Green New Deal should also provide for launching us into a housing infrastructure campaign to get tiny homes into the mainstream. It seems that this is yet another area that indicates that we need a New Economy that thinks differently about how we need to live into the future. Tiny Continue Reading
Jeffress with more theo-lunacy
Absolute idiocy. Cringe-inducing. Embarassment to any thinking, rational Christian. ” Somebody needs to read poor Greta Genesis chapter 9 and tell her the next time she worries about global warming, just look at a rainbow; that’s God’s promise that the polar ice caps aren’t going to melt and flood the world again ” — Robert Jeffress
“Still not enough”
Time for some more sustained, focused “Occupy” movements (should not have ever receded into the background in the first place. It needs to re-surface with a distinct ecological focus)