Taking cosmic redemption seriously

” …theologians would be foolish not to focus on sin. We human beings fail to love, both ourselves and others as ourselves. Relationships disastrously break down in individual lives and shared social life. Violence breaks out on international and domestic fronts. Voracious greed, racism, sexism, human trafficking, and other unspeakable injustices become solidified into social structures and create havoc. Suffering Continue Reading

“Expanding” the idea of salvation

OMG, the warnings I will receive about the heresy of expanding the idea of salvation so far as this book “threatens” to do! It will distort the simple meaning! It will detract me from the Good News of the Gospel, which I should be preaching “instead” of all this “political” Climate science mumbo-jumbo! “How can we imagine the gracious, compassionate Continue Reading

Eco Crisis is perhaps the biggest reason to “Occupy”

My prior theological focus , before my “Eco-conversion”, was the Occupy movement. Before ecoecclesia.org was my blog address, it was occupytheology.org (both urls still work, in addition to theoblogical.org ) This woman is strong in both economic justice and the ecological crisis! So pumped to see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking so strongly on both! I feel my “Occupy” sensibilities are still Continue Reading

“It really boils down to this”

From a friend on Facebook:“Still one of the best core statements of ecological truth ever – and especially now when so many would like to shred this fabric of our ecological reality into little pieces. With this reminder: individualism is a lie.” “It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable Continue Reading