Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: What does the 4th of July mean now? It’s an old story – revolution against the British monarchy, landholding white men asserting their rights to independence from the Crown, the Declaration of Independence, Washington crossing the Delaware, violating a Christmas truce to take advantage of unsuspecting drunken British [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: “What is in store for our children’s children? What will be left for those who come after? Appalled by the questions themselves, we turn to immediate tasks and try to close our minds to nightmare scenarios of want and war in a wasted, contaminated world.” – Joanna Macy [...]
NEW RELEASE – Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis We are very pleased to announce that JustFaith Ministries has recently released an 8-week module “designed as a community learning process built around the book, Living Beyond the ‘End of the World,’ A Spirituality of Hope,” by blog author Margaret Swedish. Entitled, Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis, [...]
[scroll down homepage to view sobering video from Greenpeace] Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We insist over and over again that hope must be based in reality or else it is false. When we speak of ecological hope, we speak of something urgent and difficult – we must face the extent of the [...]