Lynn White got one big thing right. The environmental mess is Christianity’s fault. We can blame religion, yes Christianity, for allowing us to plunder the land, seas, air, and animals. Our religion has fostered in us a mindset that makes an ecological crisis, notably climate change, unavoidable. And importantly, if religion is at the heart …
By the beginning of the Second World War the Fundamentalist side of the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy felt that it had lost. The modernist/mainstream side controled the nation’s seminaries and mainstream churches. Landscape
In June 2021, the Florida State Board of Education banned florida teachers from using both Critical Race Theory and the New York Time’s The 1619 Project in their classrooms. Now, nearly a year later, Florida’s public school teachers are dispirited and unsure how or even if they can teach their students about slavery and the …
The celebrity eco-activist, Bill McKibben came up with this idea that the creation of the world could be thrown into reverse and humanity could return to pre-creation chaos as it is described in the first chapter of Genesis. He expressed this idea in 2011. The more I think about it the more profound it becomes. …
Article read by the author There’s a lively debate going on right now as to whether school students should be taught the history of slavery in the United States. Parents are making a reasonable case for refraining from getting into slavery with their kids. It seems reasonable to spare students from learning about whippings, the …
This article tells the inspiring story of the spiritual crisis that drove Howard Thurman to write Jesus and the Disinherited, and how that book influenced the character of the American Civil Rights Movement.
