Dark Night of the Planet - Climate Crisis, the Bible, and Confession

[LM77 (Liam Maguire)]

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Dark Night of the Planet - Climate Crisis, the Bible, and Confession

Over the last several months, I’ve been taking a slow read of Nature as Spiritual Practice by Steven Chase, a book about how delighting in the natural world can enhance our delight in God. In chapters nine and ten, Steve talks about ‘The Dark Night of the Planet’. The idea is that, as a result of the Climate Crisis, the earth is experiencing a time of darkness, mourning, and pain that’s similar to the ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ shared by Christian thinkers like St. John of the Cross, et al. Only,…

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Climate Change - Debating the Facts

It is true that we cannot blame every problem on climate change. Humans have also caused many other problems and we need to keep the facts in mind to focus on the real causes of a problem. There have been very much research going on related to climate, paleontology and geology. What kind of research is still missing? Long-term changes in climate are something we can study and discuss without hurry because there is no risk of a new iceage during our lifetime, assuming that the planet does not …