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Category Archives: End of the World
Beyond the Apocalypse: Cultivating Eco-Resilience (sermon)
February 23, 2020 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Reverend Karen G. Johnston “…we are, indeed, facing the end of the world. Not the literal end of civilization or the human species, but a transition so profound that on the … Continue reading
If We Don’t Believe in Hell, Does It Exist? (sermon)
First Parish Church of Groton (For audio version, click here.) Generally I leave dystopian novels and movies – fictional stories about dehumanizing world futures — to the young people in my life, but recently one novel, Station Eleven, had been … Continue reading
How of Now: Holding this Earth, Our Gratitude, Our Pain (sermon)
First Parish Church of Groton, April 26, 2015 Audio version here. Perhaps you know this parable, which invites us to see with new eyes, or eyes that are willing to see newly: There once was a simple farmer who lived … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Earth, End of the World, Hope, Sermons, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged climate change, Earth Day 2015, eco-ritual, environmental spirituality, good luck bad luck, How of Now, interdependent web of existences, Joanna Macy, Naomi Klein, this changes everything, Tim DeChristopher, uncertainty, Unitarian Universalist principles, Wendell Berry, Work that Reconnects
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The Hope of Raspberry Brambles
It’s risky, writing about hope without being in touch with at least some semblance of it, particularly when one aspires to be a minister. My post yesterday for today’s Earth Day was not hope-giving. It was well-crafted. It was articulate. … Continue reading
Posted in Earth, End of the World, Hope
Tagged awake, earth day, environmental love, gardening, hope, Mary Oliver, nature, raspberries, trees
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Earth Day 2015
In the early 1980s, we all lived under the pale of mutual nuclear destruction. Are you, dear reader, old enough to remember? I was in high school then and I took this very personally. While others were out partying, or … Continue reading
Posted in End of the World, Hope, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged 7th principle, commit2respond, complicity, derek jensen, earth day, Edward Everett Hale, Elissa Melamed, environmental activism, Fate of the Earth, forget shorter showers, Great Turning, I am only one but I am one, interdependent web of existence, Joanna Macy, Jonathan Schell, this changes everything
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Inexplicably Towards the Great Turning
There are three stories that describe this point in the earth’s narrative: Business as Usual; the Great Unraveling; and the Great Turning. Business as Usual is a familiar paradigm. This story values growth over all other things. But only particular … Continue reading
Risking Hope: Who Could Have Seen That Coming?
So it would be just peachy if everything worked out all cause-and-effect-like. Two-plus-two-equals-four. You cut onions: your eyes tear up. The cat is in the box whether you look inside at it or not. (Unless, of course, you are Schrodinger. … Continue reading
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Tagged chaos theory, climate change, hope, Jay O'Hara, Ken Ward, Lobsterboat Blockade, Rebecca Solnit, viagra
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That Estranged Crazy Uncle: Did He Room with M. Night Shyamalan at Overnight Camp?
Part 2 (You can find Part 1 here.) There are a handful of liberal theologians who are applying an eco-theology lens to the Book of Revelation, stretching to find in the text inspiration for care of the earth, rather than … Continue reading