climate change

Conspiracy theories about God’s wrath start even before the storm makes landfall.

Author/activist Bill McKibben led this past weekend’s encirclement of the White House urging the the Obama Administration to block construction of a 1,700-mile pipeline to transport tar sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf. As McKibben savored a new protest-triggered State Department inquiry into a too-cozy environmental review process related to the pipeline, contributing editor Peter Laarman caught up with him on some religious dimensions of climate-change activism.

Rejecting science meant to appeal to religious voters who believe in biblical inerrancy.

And why the GOP presidential hopefuls are running scared from cap and trade.

Many of these weather events actually are a kind of “punishment”—not in the conservative-theological sense of tit-for-tat justice meted out by an Abusive Father on High, but in the more progressive-theological sense of unforeseen consequences of reckless human actions. Climate scientists have said for years that global climate change will lead to increased severe weather events, and now they appear to be here; along with droughts and poor harvests caused by shifting climatic belts. On a planetary basis, we are reaping what we have sown for two hundred years.

Twilight wars in the Middle East, Japan’s nuclear catastrophe, Deepwater Horizon, worldwide crop failures, massive die-offs of long-established species: it’s all so very scary.

In his new book the pope rejects violence… but what of his statements on gays and lesbians?

It shouldn’t be surprising that the most sacred concerns of Americans are also some of the most contentious political issues of our day.

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“The earth will end only when God says time to be over”