We’re up against it now - the moral quandary

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The current ecological problems are essentially witnesses for the prosecution, testifying that we have violated the laws of life… The verdict is simple: we have mismanaged the ‘domain’ entrusted to us.
Commission for Social Affairs, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Earth Day

Earth Day 2008. Love the Earth. Cherish your home. It’s the only one we have.

Spirituality of integrity, and also honesty

An ecological spirituality requires integrity and honesty — honesty about the world and who we are in it. The onus is on the wealthy to carry the weight of the societal, economic, and political changes required to save us from catastrophe. It’s in the bible.

Spiritual integrity in a world of growing hunger and desperation

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What I want to talk about today is how we are going to live in a world like the one we have made and keep our integrity.
I feel completely overwhelmed by the week’s news on rising global hunger, the energy supply crisis that is driving up the price of […]

A spirituality of hope 2

Two energy paths in front of us diverge: one feeds the engine of growth and leads to disaster, the other leads to simpler, scaled-down lives and can pull us back from the edge of the cliff.

A spirituality of hope

Two paths are before us in our energy future — one leads to ecological destruction, the other is a path of hope, a path of alternative new energies, scaled down lifestyles, and a future on the planet for our children and their children’s children.

Engineering the Earth to death

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
When we speak about ecology, we speak of relationships. Over and over again we need to say this until we really ‘get it.’
We humans are not over and above Nature; we are not masters of Nature, much less the universe. We are not at the […]

Sacred Season

Easter, Spring, Passover — in this sacred season, it is time to renew our intimacy with Nature, to be immersed in the process of renewal and regeneration of Life.

Preparing for the hard times

The planetary crisis, the multiple ecological crises, will bring about a very hard time on this Earth. Humans must decide how we will live through this time of turbulence, upheaval, and wrenching change.

A world reeling

In a world reeling under unprecedented pressures, upheaval is now part of the context in which humans will live over this and the next generations. This can be disaster or opportunity, a call to begin creating a new more life-sustaining way of life.

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