Being more descriptive about “the love of God in Christ”

Okay, here’s an example, from the UMC.org site’s “What We Believe” section. I pick on the UMC because this is what I identify as “My people” (since I could no longer say that about the Southern Baptists after a great “growing up” in that denomination prior to it’s dismantling as a diverse, loving, nurturing “home” as it turned to doctrinaire, Continue Reading

Salvation REQUIRES an ecological conversion

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 Continue Reading