A while back I had written about how there needs to be a “Confessing Church” movement centered on the Climate Crisis. The election of Donald Trump has not only accentuated that need, but it adds a whole slew of additional pleas to people in the Church to have the guts and the consciousness to stand up and reject the capitulation Continue Reading
Boy do we ever need a Woodward and Bernstein and a 1970’s Washington Post now! The reckless, blind ambition of these people should leave open so many expose’, scandalous, inexcusable alliances with money that will curl the hair on the neck of even the most conservative. Granted, it’s going to take much more than it took to bring down the Continue Reading
I can hear them saying. All is cool. It’s “Morning in America” again, hearkening back to the time when Reagan crushed Carter to get elected, contrasting himself with Carter’s now prescient forseeing of the impact of the fossil-fuel economy, by telling us that “all is calm, all is bright” and taking down the solar panels Carter put on the roof Continue Reading
Every now and then , over the past 17 months (since early July of 2015), I think about the friend of 30 years that told me one day “Do not contact me again”. I haven’t spoken with him since. We had often had long conversations about many things: politics, religion, philosophy, you name it. The guy kept a fairly even, Continue Reading
On this Facebook post , Ivan quotes from Diana Butler Bass. I posted a comment, and then copied it and started to create this blog post, but then edited it, since I was not quite happy with what I had posted, and then went back to that comment, hit “Edit” and added a link to this blog for further elaboration Continue Reading