Green Junction: Season of Creation by Julie Peller Ph.D.

Green Junction In this Season of Creation (9/3 – 10/4), Pope Francis reminds us to take “decisive, urgent action to transform the climate crisis into an opportunity.” The high severity of natural disasters in just the last few months has touched the lives of nearly one-third of the people living in the US. From the […]

In the time of our lives….

This weekend in David Bentley Hart’s, Leaves in the Wind, part two of “Mind, Nature, Emergence” we find much to reflect upon in our world of the autonomous revolution where AI will become the dominant factor as much as what automation was to the industrial revolution. In the world that Kevin Kelly calls the “Technium” […]

Eudaimonia is the Anthesis of Authoritarianism

Eudaimonia is the Antithesis of Authoritarianism The Wisdom of Aristotle and the ‘Greater Good’ is the Difference in being human and the Difference it makes in the words of Peter, Paul & Mary: “When will we ever learn, when will we ever learn.” Examples of authoritarianism are throughout history. We see the path to the […]

Green Junction: New Ideas Turn Into New Products by Julie Peller Ph.D.

New ideas often turn into products marketed as more stuff to buy to make life easier and better. Detergent pods were launched in 2012, an example of newer stuff for cleaning clothes. Even though there have been many different detergents available, the lure of popping a pod into a washing machine, evidently easier than measuring […]

Sue Monk and After Jesus Before Christianity

Sue Monk who wrote the Forward to the book “After Jesus Before Christianity” hosted a one-hour discussion with two of the authors of the book. Keep in mind The work of this book is the work of three authors and the Christianity Seminar part one, team which is a multitude of biblical scholars and historians. The research lasted […]

The Widow’s Mite

For example, assuming Both Richard Rohr and Bishop Strickland of Tyler TX preached today on the Gospel, (Mk 12:38-44 or 12:41-44) I can just imagine, maybe they would be as different as night and day. The widow had no plan B, no savings to fall back on, no tomorrow. How many of our hierarchy would […]

Something Special about Halloween, All Saints and ClimateSe

There is, for me, something special about Halloween and All Saints Day. Together they are the Apex of the FALL season.Living in the Midwest, you get to experience four and sometimes five seasons, LOL. In each, we experience change. Reflecting on Richard Rohr’s “The First Bible,” we see a theology of creation. The Significant Other […]

Good Morning to all on this Eve of All Saints

Good Morning to all on this eve of All Saints Let us remember ALL the Saints not just those declared by the church, keeping in mind the spirit and thinking of Origen, Gregory of Nysa, Thomas Aquinas, Hans Urs von Balthasar, De Lubac, Dun Scotus, Bonaventure, and current theologians of The alternative Perennial Orthodoxy that […]

Green Junction: Glass is a Beautiful Thing. By Julie Peller, Ph.D.

Glass is a beautiful material that is believed to date back to 2400 BC. Glass is made of roughly 70% silica sand with other components, namely limestone (calcium carbonate) and soda ash (sodium carbonate). By heating these materials in a furnace above 2700 degrees Fahrenheit and then cooling, glass forms. Soda-lime glass is the most […]