Spirituality and Ecological Hope

Today’s Washington Post contained a very sad article about the voracious beetle destroying forests in British Colombia:  www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801772.html.  The beetle is not new.  What is new is that Canadian winters are no longer cold enough to kill them off, which is crucial for keeping their population under control.  The result?  Read the article.  It is [...]

With the news of this past week, I think about how many conflicts in our world are in the same places where the oil lies “ violence in the Niger Delta has claimed scores of lives in the past few days; Iraq is sinking rapidly into the sectarian strife predicted by so many before the [...]

A conjunction of crises is about to present US society with some stark realities.  Climate change due to global warming, natural resource depletion, peak oil production and the looming energy crisis, along with multiple economic disasters in the waiting, are coming together to pose enormous challenges for this society.