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One of the saddest things about the Vineyard National Conference earlier this month was the lack of recycling. Hundreds of plastic water bottles were handed out like candy! Still sadder was that the one day recycling bins were set up, everyone threw their food trash into them… sigh… Having brought my trusty metal water [...] “Green Guilt” is the title of an article published last month (Jan 10th) by The Chronicle Review and written by Stephen T. Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago. The premise of the article is that humanity has a “natural propensity toward guilt and indignation.” Throughout history, this guilt over “our very existence” was challenged into aggression with each other. When that was not possible, due to social and religious rules, we “engage in a kind of self-denial, or self-cruelty.”
With the decline of Christianity in the West, something had to rise up and take over the role of directing our “feelings of guilt and indignation”: Continue reading Green Guilt I was reading my local newspaper today when I ran across an article about the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch". The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a patch of ocean approximately twice the size of Texas filled with trash. Granted most of the trash is little bitty pieces of plastic – so small that [...] Airports are not fun places to wait. They have hard seats and, depending on the location, very few stores to browse. Yet, a few years ago a young man named Ben Lowe volunteered to wait in the Boise airport for an additional hour so that he could car pool with another conference attendee. [...] A while back I mentioned that I was interviewed by Sojourners Magazine for an article about young evangelicals and politics. Today I’m proud to bring you the completed article as reported online (the printed magazine won’t be out for another few weeks). Warning: the article is quite long as it was written for [...] What a headline! First things first – that you all for your help with an anniversary ideas. There was a TON of great suggestions… however, I’m going to go with: Giving her an electrical toothbrush What do you think? I spent a lot of time and effort thinking this one through – [...] It’s a miracle!! Someone ACTUALLY wants to hear my views!!! I mean, come on, lets be real – most of you all read this blog out of guilt placed upon you by the editor (which is not me..really….I’m being serious here…the editor is a non-partisan, non-bias individual who’s main job is to get people [...] A few weeks ago the 700 Club came to Boise and interviewed some of the folks at our church about our community garden, the Garden o' Feedin'. I would enbed the video, but for some reason I can’t get that part to wok.. sigh… so you will have to follow this link to watch [...] Downtown Boise was a mess this weekend!! Not only was the Idaho Green Expo going on, but next door (literally) Beth Moore was hosting an event. Not to be left out, the area between the two events was hosting it's own function – ie. a farmers market. This led to a shortage of parking [...] |
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