Reading “Judgment” passages

Far too many evangelicals have been deceived into thinking that the Apocalyptic judgments are for “other people” and not for them, since they have “asked Jesus into their heart” and therefore escape those judgments.

Gnostic heresy is earth killing

The Ecological Crisis represents what is the most direct assault and consequence of the disengagement from life of the gnostic heresy. To segregate salvation and spirituality into some “internal” transaction is a false move and a distortion of the gospel of Jesus. For sure, there are things happening “within us” as we engage the world from within The Kingdom of Continue Reading

Green New Deal is wholistic politics

If I had to use one word to describe “Green New Deal”, it would be: WHOLISTIC Naomi Klein puts it this way in her intro to On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal: This book, made up of long-form reporting, think pieces, and public talks written over the span of a decade, tracks my own attempt to Continue Reading

Bad headlines

This headline is woefully inadequate. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/09/22/no-one-seemed-to-notice-greta-thunbergs-critique-of-the-green-new-deal But hey, that’s headlines for you. It’s not specifically “Green New Deal”. It’s the political game around it, which has become “IT” because “it” is the present expression of the urgency brewing in the “left” ranks. But many of the people behind the Green New Deal would be the first to tell you that Continue Reading

Doing something about Climate Change is “Gospel”

“The gospel call to love one’s neighbor is, in our time and place, most fully a call to do something about climate change,” he said, “because at the moment, we’re drowning our neighbors, sickening our neighbors, making it impossible for our neighbors to grow food.” — Bill McKibben  ?The dominant theological issue?: Environmentalist Bill McKibben wants your pastor at the Continue Reading

“The Climate Issue” deluge

If The Economist can say this, how about the Church? Wake up, Christians! If we can get just to this point, we might have the vantage point to see that it will take far more than an issue of focus (ie. “The Climate Issue”, much like TIME did earlier. It requires an entire line of dedicated media, 24 hours a Continue Reading

The missing category of home building

This: Downsizing the American Dream: The new trend toward ?missing middle housing? After years of focusing on the upscale market, developers are addressing the need for smaller homes. www.washingtonpost.com   This whole idea is moving in the right direction, but this “missing market” seems right smack dab in the middle, not moving even further toward what we REALLY need, and Continue Reading

More dangerous than WMD; actually they ARE WMDs

Indeed they are. When the world makes it a point to get together to address the ecological crisis, there comes a point when it behooves the world’s more sane leaders to decide to act against tyranny and destruction of life. This is such a case. This is FAR more apparent (and it also happens to be TRUE) than it was Continue Reading

Ecological Crisis a “niche issue”?

Clueless characterization of the ecological crisis: “Niche”. Denial straight-up. Not an “issue” , as in “one among many” to accept or reject. Either you accept science and act accordingly (as we naturally do with doctors, taking their diagnoses seriously, even when getting “second opinions” – we still do not forsake the field of medical expertise). “{Trump officials were} complaining the Continue Reading