Pope Francis explains that “Concern for the environment needs to be joined to a sincere love for our fellow human beings and an unwavering commitment to resolving the problems of society.” About a half-million metric tons of plastic microfibers, which never decompose, enter the ocean each year, according to the International Union for Conservation of […]
Read more "How much oil are you wearing today? BY JULIE PELLER PH.D"“Pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and God what belongs to God.” That saying of Jesus from Matthews’s Gospel is one that all scripture scholars from Westar onward all agree is 100% a Jesus original saying. What Jesus is saying to us is to remember who ‘owns‘ the world. And in Isiah 45, […]
Read more "The Kingdom of God is here and now."Over a decade ago, I sat in on a very informative presentation about the over-consumption problem in our society. The excessive acquisition of goods depletes resources, converts natural land to engineered land, creates more waste, utilizes more energy, requires more transportation and the list of unsustainable practices/outcomes goes on. As an example, the amount of […]
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by Mark Roosien While the Orthodox Church has gained a reputation internationally as a “green” church, largely due to the environmental initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the reality is much more complicated on the ground. 1,094 more words
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Read more "Should Orthodox Christians Care about the Climate? — Public Orthodoxy"This is an abstract for a talk to be given by Johannes Neiderhauser to the society on 21st November 2019. Date & Time: Thursday 21st November 2019 @ 20:05Location: Room B01, 30 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DTEvent Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/2412414102161166/?ti=icl Heidegger is often considered a luddite extremely opposed to developments of modern technology. By his own, […]
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Read more "Johannes Niederhauser – Heidegger and Technology — Birkbeck Philosophy Society"Is it’s time for a little reality check (please see article below). Maybe the time has passed for us to be constantly studying what steps we need to take to try to overcome climate change? Maybe it is time to begin to prepare generations to come for the likely reality that our Earth is now […]
Read more "Is it time to rethink climate change?"1. ORDER Getting to the root cause was a big deal to Aristotle. The concept Occam’s razor You might remember from your philosophy or science classes—the idea that the simplest explanation is the most likely one? Well, Occam enhanced and promoted the Aristotelian root cause analysis and called it “Occam’s Razor.“ This is the old […]
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