Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I was invited to lead a workshop on ecological grieving in Atlanta tomorrow. It’s a pre-conference event at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. The workshop is sponsored by the Religion and Ecology Group, the Forum on Religion and Ecology, and the Sustainability Task Force. [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Missed a second post last week. Don’t we all feel the pressure of work and life’s demands on our time and energy? It is a plague of our era and one of the reasons we have trouble bringing about real change, because real change requires time for reflection, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Just a quick thought for the weekend: as we have been writing this past week, poverty in the U.S. is becoming such a serious crisis that it is hard to imagine how we will deal with any of the major challenges of this rapidly shifting world without addressing [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Of course, given the grim news of recent days, months, years, it would not be surprising to find that U.S. Americans’ trust in institutions is eroding. This phenomenon is apparent in a recent Associated Press-National Constitution Center poll released last week. High on the list for distrust are [...]