Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Still full of yesterday’s thoughts, I want to add this post for our weekend reflection. Earth Day approaches, a good time to ponder the true nature of our relationship with our planet. Spirituality encompasses many things. It is an orientation to life, an inner attitude that determines our [...]
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 [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Two paths diverge. That’s how we ended yesterday, and I just wanted to follow up, because there was more news today about these choices in front us, other dramatic examples of what I mean. First, this thought towards the end of Thomas Homer-Dixon‘s book, The Upside of Down, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The project I am involved in deals with hope — and I’m telling you, some days I know what that phrase from scripture means where it says, hope against hope. There is such force of momentum in global dynamics right now — population growth, economic growth in developing [...]