@will_yale Food is everyone’s issue which is why it matters but complex discussions are hard to have on Twitter whether regarding food or theology. The intersection of food, public policy, market economics is inherently complex. I’m not advocating for a return to subsistence farming as... @will_yale ...the only, sufficient response to our current crisis. But some people returning to subsistence agriculture is a good idea because that adds resilience to the system and provides for a means for educating others about the realities of food production before...

I wasn't planning to say much about this, because there's so much I don't know. But now that I've seen this thread, I know more. And from what I know, I have a few things to say.

https://twitter.com/UnionSeminary/status/1174376384061423616

The title of the class is brilliant. We need ritual/liturgical responses to extractivism. Our entire economy assumes extractivism: the concept that the earth is a set of "natural resources" and we humans have the right to exploit them. Some background: jesuits.org/Assets/Publica…

In re the fact that I am serving a church that is growing while overall, we the mainline are having a conversation about decline, a few thoughts. First, I would like to reply to the person who once told me, in a job interview, that her church was growing because a man was the pastor...

Correlation is not causation.

(Yes, I was interviewing her to consider her for a hire. She was not hired.)