There are no words…

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
There are so many ways that we are reminded that we are not apart from Nature, that we are immersed in it, elements of it. We think we control it, and then it controls us.
The piles of trash in the alley behind my Mother’s house — rolled up […]

I’ve got Lena Horne on the brain today

Extreme weather — harbinger of the new climate reality

Notice life changing all around us?

Permanent changes are now happening all around us. We will need to decide how we will live through the great upheaval that is coming.

So many things, change all around us

Humans are not in control of Nature, but rather subject to it. We cannot bend Creation to our will.

The crisis of ‘America’ — a Memorial Day weekend reflection

We are currently living in what researchers have called an ecological ‘overshoot and collapse’ mode. The hubris within the U.S. culture is a major obstacle to altering our course towards global catastrophe. Avoiding that catastrophe needs to become the patriotic project of our times.

Is God large enough for evolution?

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Just back from a conference in Hiawatha, Iowa, at a wonderful spirituality/ecology center called Prairiewoods, a ministry of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration of La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The conference featured Dr. John Haught, a theologian at Georgetown University’s Woodstock Theological Center. Dr. Haught has focused much of […]

Myanmar and human compassion

Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar, is a reminder that we live on an alive and volatile planet. Storms like this one remind us that a combination of extreme weather, ecological degradation (like deforestation), poverty, and injustice can bring about enormous human tragedy.

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
Our […]

Moral leadership

Teachers, students, religious and others in Waterdown Ontario attend Earth Day events. Meanwhile, the Catholic Conference of Canadian Bishops has released a new, prophetic statement on the environment and the need for conversion

Earth Day

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

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