One of the best primers on the Ecological Crisis I?ve seen. Back in April I posted a link to a PBS NOva episode called ?Decoding the Climate Machine?, recommending it highly as a primer on the Ecological situation. That video was taken out of fr? ecoecclesia.org
One commenter offers this (https://www.facebook.com/YaleProgramOnC…/…/2481349808573026…) : “Try looking at the solar cycle to find the answer. “ Michael E. Mann did. He was expecting it to be a big factor in explaining things. He found the opposite. You would know this if you read the actual science, instead of being “brainwashed by this lie” that is the lie fed to you Continue Reading
Love it!
From Mark Davies via Hope and Climate Change
Several memes that are popular “so what?” responses of those who push back against the idea that there is any serious Ecological Crisis going on. 1. It hurts the poor 2. New technologies will make it all better. 3. The U.S. is doing better than other nations. 4. Addressing the Ecological Crisis will harm the economy. 1. What Industrialized nations Continue Reading
This is an awesome post on AOC, and how she puts Trump and Ryan to shame on intellectual/academic creds. Just listening to her, it is clearly apparent that she is not only credentialed, but gifted and articulate.
Indeed. Ironic that those most unconscious of this are those most strongly insisting that “this is what God says in His Word”. They insist that “they have no choice” but to obey “His Word”, all the while being unable to distinguish “reading one’s self interpreting the Bible” from “The Word”. Duke McCall’s words in his sermon in chapel at Southern Continue Reading
“we have to be willing to give up, surrender, let go completely the notion that the work we do and the communities we build can salvage a “way of life” built around massive exploitation of the planet to support a global industrial economic growth model that has led us to this point. That’s over. Our work now is not a Continue Reading
This ( HT Deen Thompson)
The empty continuity of chronotime is interrupted by a messianic contraction, in a decisive “now” growing from the radical gospel teaching of the “kingdom of God”—that is, of a politico-spiritually charged transformation, immanent to the event of the kairos.12 So then Paul’s point will not have been to menace the community at Corinth with the end of the world. The Continue Reading
This piece of the quote: ” “After the political shift, however, the window seemed to be slamming shut. Not on all of life, not on the earth, not necessarily even on our species. But on historic human civilization as it flows into its future. ” is the best articulation of the answer to those who keep repeating the meme : Continue Reading
The right wing uproar and energy seeking to laugh at @AOC is , itself, a gas. The “she lacks brains” line, and others like it, are the rage on right wing comments, including a UM Facebook group that is frequented mostly by right wing conservatives. LOL Anyone with some quality education can recognize articulate passion and vision. She’s not only Continue Reading