My friend John Elwood, climate expert/activist and theologian, has a Substack account. Today's post is about Trump's executive order of...

“The world has been ending off and on for almost all of recorded history….” Mathematician and collapsologist B. Sidney Smith, in How to...

Those struggling with addiction are familiar with the Serenity Prayer, which is often used to close Alcoholics Anonymous meetings:   God...

After the shock of confronting reality and responding with the instincts for survival, belonging and meaning, grief can hit us. Grief,...

The pivotal chapter in Life After Doom  is the 2nd chapter, “Welcome to Reality”, in which McLaren sketches four possible scenarios for...

Brian McLaren posits that a process has been set in motion by humans  that, unless some revolutionary change in thinking and behavior...

Brian McLaren has been thinking and writing about the Christian faith and how the faith as we have received it needs to change for many...

Lowell Bliss calls COP29 a “whitewashed tomb”.

It's American Thanksgiving today. Here is a Thanksgiving Address of the Haudenosaunee First Nation People. Haudenosaunee is the common...

From Braiding Sweetgrass  by Robin Wall Kimmerer "The Windigo is the legendary monster of our Anishinaabe people, the villain of a tale...

“We are living in a time many people refer to as the Anthropocene. Humans have become the single most influential species on the planet,...

On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron starwould weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons equals the collective weight of every animal on...

I have a friend who has studied environmental issues for decades. He has a brilliant, sharp mind, and he remembers most – all? – of what...

This slogan came often from the lips of Donald Trump during his campaign for president in 2024.   His MAGA crowd loved it: they cheered...