Year: 2025
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Light in the Darkness
“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5 In this Christmas season, with all its joys and sorrows, we celebrate the light of Christ that has come into the world. One very bright light in my life is the birth of my great-grandaughter—a baby who is welcomed with…
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Celebrating Christmas: Comfort, Joy, and Social Change
Photo by Sharon Delgado I greet you during this season of celebration. Our indoor “Christmas plant” with its lights and ornaments cheer me, along with candles, evergreen boughs, and other simple decorations. Two days ago I celebrated my birthday quietly with a few family members, then yesterday the Winter Solstice with music and carols, and…
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Fossil Fuels: The New “F” Word
COP 30 Ends with No Roadmap for a Phaseout of Fossil Fuels Also Posted In United Methodist Insight These days, “fossil fuels” seems to be as unspeakable as the other “f” word used to be, at least in official documents addressing climate change. COP 30 ended not only without the roadmap to a transition away…
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Celebrating the Death of Fossil Fuels at COP 30
Also Posted on the Fossil Free UMC blog. On Saturday at COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, 50,000 people “celebrated the death of fossil fuels” outside the United Nations climate summit. The “Great People’s March” and makeshift “Funeral for Fossil Fuels” was organized by civil society organizations and Indigenous Peoples groups from Brazil and beyond. Their demands included a fair phaseout…
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Competing Worldviews at COP 30
As representatives of many nations and members of civil society from around the world prepare to gather for COP30 in Belém, the competing worldviews of various participants are clearly in view. As a United Methodist, I’m grateful that representatives of the denomination will be there, informed by our common faith. The Community of All Creation…
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Calming the Storms of Our Times
Photo by Paul Jeffrey. Used by permission. Also posted on the website of Fossil Free UMC. I’m grateful to be working with the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement (including Fossil Free UMC and the California-Nevada Climate Justice Ministries Task Force), doing what we can and calling the United Methodist Church to urgent and meaningful climate…
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Jesus and Immigrant Rights
Jesus and Immigrant Rights
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At this Time When the Earth Needs Us Most
This past year I have been updating Love in a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice, which was originally published in 2017. The revised version will be released on January 13. Here are a couple of excerpts from the new Preface: At this time in history, when the stability of life on Earth…
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Today I Heard God Speak to Me
“The Earth is the Primary Revelation” Thomas Berry Today I heard God speak to me in the voice of a Black-headed Grosbeak. Its familiar warble rose above the cacophony of bird song and brought me to tears. Tears of joy at a Pentecost ongoing, the Divine continually speaking to us in languages we earthlings can…
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Easter: Living a Resurrected Life
Easter this year is filled with paradox. How can we understand and celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus when ignorant, cruel, and ideologically driven men in high places dominate public policy and endanger the world? In the midst of the “shock therapy” being administered by the second administration of Donald Trump, who continues to be supported…