The Titans' new football stadium, slated to open in 2027. 2.1-2.2 BILLION. While the world heats up as we continue to delay and deny. Delay action to prepare for the consequences of what we've already done, and deny that it will be something everyone lives to regret. 1/ In an economy that is also driven by denial and business as usual, these kinds of spending priorities are insane. The present stadium is not even 30 years old. But this too is a piece of the insane decadence of the "NFL dream". Luxury boxes. A sport becoming more and more... 2/

This understanding articulated by Stephen, about the scientifically substantiated interconnectedness of the ecosystem, is the basis for what I posted Sunday about the "loss of ecstasy in worship" in churches that have been captured by the larger cultural abandonment of nature. 1/

https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/2018831827004268875

The key portion for this : "The scientific ecosystem understanding of life on Earth, really is quite apart from the general cultural world view of modern Western culture, ...the majority,... have the old Western view, of nature, as something detached..." 2/

Worship has lost its ecstasy as our concept of God has become ripped away from nature. The "Creator" can be a concept that separates from the Creation rather than affirm it & express our dependence & joyous unity. The "joy of the Lord" is diminished when God is set apart as... 1/ ...an "external force" of "Creator", rather than the intimate, integral animating force whose very being is inseparable from the Earth and it's wonders. I think this is what has bothered me about "Worship Songs" and "Give Glory to God" songs. 2/

@violin4all The key phrase : "humans always found refuge in some of the most ludicrous supremacy hallucinations". HUMANS did this. HUMANS constructed a wide variety of realities, and most of those constructions appropriated religious dogma to back it, including Bible interpretations. 1/ @violin4all But neither "religion" , nor even "the Bible" is the culprit here. It's HUMANS, and their insistence of constructing a narrative or story to "explain" things. I can see this disconnect in the first few sentences of the article, and coming through strong in the comments. 2/

I've seen this MS Now promo ad, that is claiming to be representing "We the People" and citing the Preamble to the Constitution.
“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, ...1/ ...provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” But nothing at all about the ultimate danger to us all and ...2/

@Olivergill4B @violin4all @NBPTROCKS The Medieval Church, being that one that preceded The Printing Press and industrialization and Reformation, did its major intercontinental "expansion" (aka "Conquest" via participation and their "blessing" upon those "Conquests" of other lands and their inhabitants). 1/ @Olivergill4B @violin4all @NBPTROCKS Thus began the drive to "develop" and "landscape" (aka "Tera-form" those lands both physically and culturally in the image of Europe and its varied cultures). The enslavement of human bodies to do the "man-power" work can be said to have "led to" to the employment of long-dead 2/

@Olivergill4B @violin4all @NBPTROCKS @POTUS The Medieval Church, being that one that preceded The Printing Press and industrialization and Reformation, did its major intercontinental "expansion" (aka "Conquest" via participation and their "blessing" upon those "Conquests" of other lands and their inhabitants). 1/ @Olivergill4B @violin4all @NBPTROCKS @POTUS Thus began the drive to "develop" and "landscape" (aka "Tera-form" those lands both physically and culturally in the image of Europe and its varied cultures). The enslavement of human bodies to do the "man-power" work can be said to have "led to" to the employment of long-dead 2/

Trump is a walking , talking (barely, on both counts) disaster on the ecosystem of American politics, economics, and justice. The Republicans knew wo he was, and put him forth as "their candidate" because he can be bought with any promise of benefits to himself. /1 They are as guilty as the fossil fuel companies are for the ecological disasters of fossil fuels, because the fossil fuel companies KNEW the dangers and hid it from the public, for their own selfish gain. The Republican Party is also similarly guilty: They knew who Trump was 2/

Eco-Reformation* is needed! Nothing less, for STARTERS.
“It is now time for us to do a collective calling-in for our survival. And we’re going to need these folks who claim to hold the moral center of our hearts and our societies to actually understand that if ... 1/ ... you are neutral, says Bishop Desmond Tutu, in the face of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. We have to understand what moral leadership is and who’s worthy of informing our ethos.” —
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth. What If We Get It Right? 2/

The U.S., and especially now, under the Trump regime: EcoCrisis Denial (tear down all structures and efforts to understand and detect Climate Change and other Ecological effects happening), Health System attacks (Underfund, and then , now, DE fund all health systems) 1/ Disaster readiness : Underfund, and now DE fund all warning systems, deny funding to any further research and planning for ongoing and continuing disasters, Education (Under fund, make more expensive while destroying the real value of that education by cutting education ....2/

“Real preparation is addressing risks before the disaster happens and then making sure we have a collective response to the disaster carefully planned out.” — Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth. What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures (p. 352). Random House Kindle Ed. 1/ Just like the looming and already accelerating ecological rolling disasters. We have not been "ruggedizing". Instead, we've been exacerbating it all. We've been "willing" (aka "blinded" or "placated") complicit bystanders, denying that any of this is happening, or that... 2/

I am so struck right now (and most other times) at how concerned Bill McKibben was in '08 when he wrote what I'm now re-reading in "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and The Durable Future", and to see how much worse things have gotten, and much faster than he knew then. 1/ McKibben was much better informed (he saw to that by actually delving into the science and writing so effectively about it for a general audience) than most, but even those in the know have since been struck at how much faster things have moved toward the deeper crises.... 2/

The Gaza issue is, very realistically, NOT a religious issue, but a colonization and conquest issue....which is in the Bible from many directions, and examples exist of the wrong side of that, and, of the prophetic condemnation of that, within those same Scriptures; ....1/ ...of "Prophetic Imagination" that sees THROUGH that and recognizes the EVIL that is manifested in that. And there is a journey in that process of what we have in that collection. 2/

OK, here's the Space I have scheduled for tomorrow at 10 am Central time.
Pay attention to my "ground rules" or my "guidance" I am going to post as reply to this post. I think it may well veer wildly off topic if I don't do this.
x.com/i/spaces/1LyxB… Biblical Apocalypse has become associated with a lot of rather clueless theology concerning what Apocalypse actually is, or how it was intended to be used by the Biblical authors who employed it. It has ZERO to do with giving a "crystal ball" into events in the 20th-21st... 1/

Re: the need for a new/updated "Revelation" or "Apocalyptic" narrative that is "inspired" or motivated by the new ecological reality. It begins with the idea that the reason I'm suggesting this "re-opening of the canon" in order to "add some needed updates" (or "amendments")...1/ ...that start with the present reality, and how we've gotten here. The "unveil" here is the "vision" of what we've done. So the "common ground" relatable stuff is going to be primarily the job of the preacher or teacher, for the specifics. 2/

I just saw another list of problems of our present realities in America, and , once again, there is no mention of the Ecological hell we're continuing to build for ourselves and our children.
I posted this in reply:
1/ Worst of all, nobody's talking about the Ecological Crisis, despite our essentially having run out of time to do an achievable transition. The earlier we had begun this, the more affordable and less stressful of a change it would have been. Now we are pushing ...2/

I just read a series of tweets expressing disgust at the U.S. bombing Iran while a laundry list of woes in America , all exacerbated by the outright insane assault of MAGA/GOP/Trump, but once again, like so many "Progressive" critiques, fail to ...1/ ...even so much as mention the Ecological Crisis, as if it hasn't been bearing down on us for the last 30-40 years, and ever so much more apparent and accelerating in the past 5 years. This kind of continued neglect in our national consciousness is going to be ...2/

This "Opinion" is absolutely oblivious to reality. If you look at this writer's other works, it's typical of the media now. A few things about this (a long thread) : 1/
"Guess who Americans want to run the economy? Hint: It's not Democrats. | Opinion usatoday.com/story/opinion/… "Donald Trump's focus on the economy is why Americans elected him president."
This is an astounding thing to say; even more so that it is something that is taken seriously by anyone. Really? TRUMP's FOCUS? First of all, what is "FOCUS" with this guy? 2/

Another quote from my Wendell Berry reading that I just have to relay to you:
"Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to ... 1/ ...incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and ...2/

A Facebook post (see ) from a person I follow asks this question:
"THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY desperately needs a new leader to emerge, a combination of MLK jr., Angela Merkel, Fred Rogers and Fareed Zakaria. Not asking for much. Who’s in your combo?"buff.ly/I30Y71s So I made my contribution:
An Ecological preacher/teacher is needed here, too. MLK was likely to have become one had he lived longer (but had already been calling more attention to the ecological trends than most of his contemporaries). 2/

"... there are an enormous number of people—and I am one of them—whose native religion, for better or worse, is Christianity. We were born to it; we began to learn about it before we became conscious; it is, whatever we think of it, an intimate belonging of our being; ... 1/ ...it informs our consciousness, our language, and our dreams. We can turn away from it or against it, but that will only bind us tightly to a reduced version of it. A better possibility is that this, our native religion, should survive and renew itself so that it may become...2/