Climate Change - Or Else

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Christians, Muslims, Jews: Our God is One and the same God, whose name is Loving Mercy.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

We think of you as interested in belief. And you are. So it surprises us that you use doubt to strengthen belief. You use doubt to cast away casual and immature belief. You use doubt to clarify belief that is unclear, uncertain, less than authentic. You use doubt to exercise the muscles of belief. You use doubt as a refiner’s fire to temper belief so it is strong enough to face persecution and death. You use doubt as sand to polish belief so it glows in the dark and sheds light on those who need it. You use doubt because ignoring it or squelching it leads to unbelief. You use doubt and it helps reveal you more clearly.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Too bad you don’t have a cell phone, Peter, so you could take a picture of me walking here and send it to the rest of the guys.”

[Even a camera might have done, but He didn’t say this when walking on the water.]

D. Blog: Climate Change

A few months ago, we put a sign in our yard: Stop Global Warming. Since then, the temperatures around here have been cooler than the usual, so we joke about how the sign really works. Everyone should get one and that would end the threat.

But climate change is no joke. And we cannot eliminate the threat, only reduce its inevitable impacts. You’ve heard it: human activity has created the dangerous situation. Andy Capp was right (although he might never have heard about global warming): We have met the enemy, and it is us. Our assault on Planet Earth needs to pull back, retreat if we want to save any chance of a decent way of human life.