Back to Ordinary days, this being the Ordinary Day 5. Same schedule, 7:15 Eucharist, today by The Church of North India and the Church of Bangladesh, then breakfast. Bible Study today covered John 8: 31-59. While we discussed that my Bible Study is becoming closer and closer and wanted to process the day before, the ironies, the incredible sight and feel of marching with our brothers and sisters for a cause that deserves and needs our moral and spiritual voice, hunger and poverty. That day will not soon be lost on any of us. Thanks to Mary Allen, one picture was found with me, kind of in it. I put it in just above. Also, you can see the BBC news video at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/7523539.stm
Today, we turned our focus to one of the issues that I have the most passion about and the one that I think is the most serious for us to have a voice; Climate Change and Global Warming. In my self select session I again attended the Climate Change workshop entitled today “The consequences of of climate change From South to North” The Chair was John Prichard, Bishop of Oxford, UK, and Tom Wilmot, Bishop of Perth, Australia and Bishop Mark McDonald, National Indigenous Bishop, Toronto, Canada and former bishop of Alaska. This was a fascinating discussion. I am very heartened by how many bishops see this as a major focus and how many want to know more.
More “politically correct” blather. Why is saving souls not a passion of this so called bishop? Global warming has not even been proven or accepted by the whole scientific community. Yes it draws a lot of press, but what is more important, being warm on earth or burning in hell?
“I am very heartened by how many bishops see this as a major focus and how many want to know more. ” Really…
There aren’t many other issues which are less focussed, more diffuse, and less accessible to theological discussion than [i]global warming.[/i] This appears to be one man’s distraction of choice, as his church burns down about him.
“Today, we turned our focus to one of the issues that I have the most passion about and the one that I think is the most serious for us to have a voice; Climate Change and Global Warming.”
Wow, this bishop must be onto something.
“Climate Change and Global Warming” have a higher priority than Salvation, Healing and Evangelization.
How come so many of us haven’t “seen the light” and jumped on the “Climate Change and Global Warming” band wagon.
Maybe this is a secular political priority for the bishop and and not a religious priority. You know, the secular political priority being championed by the Nobel and Oscar winning politician who was academically dropped from divinity school after failing several courses.
I love how bishops want to be involved in political activity when they can’t even grow, much more RUN, their own dioceses. It’s the old way: make pronouncements and demand money and actions by political leaders (prophetic), and be oblivious to the crumbling foundations at home.