Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The title of my second book was certainly intended to get attention: Living Beyond the ‘End of the World:’ A Spirituality of Hope.
End of the world? Hope? How do these things go together?
It is uncomfortable, perhaps sad, certainly frightening, but an end of a world is coming, even has already [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, here’ some good news from the economic crisis — we’re throwing away less trash. Landfills are facing economic stress. This is a good thing, and we hope it lasts — also that anyone laid off from jobs at landfills can get a another job.
This story was reported in the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Sometimes when probing the newspapers, I run into something that jumps off the page at me, that reveals something about what is wrong with us, how we have gotten ourselves into multiple crises, both ecological and economic, until now we don’t have a clue how to get ourselves out of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[WARNING: this is a longish post, a meditation, if you will. I welcome your comments.]
Can the economic crisis be perceived as an opportunity to change how we live? Of course it can. And whether one sees that as scary, or with relief, or with an “about time,” or with sadness [...]