Climate change consistently comes out — in terms of apocalyptic climate impacts — at the lowest probability and the lowest fatalities. Especially when you consider the catastrophic scenarios like losing the West Antarctic’s ice sheet or Greenland’s, those are 700-year to 1,000-year events. It’s hard to make a Hollywood disaster movie with science like that. So Vaclav ends up ranking those things at the bottom, he puts wars and pandemics at the top. Nuclear war would obviously be apocalyptic or at least catastrophic. There’s a debate around whether humans could survive, but there’s no debate that we could destroy our civilization with nuclear weapons.
Author / James Ross Kelly
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10 Things You Can’t Vote For While Following Jesus | Mark Sandlin
Being a “Christian” means “being a little Christ.” Put even more succinctly, it means “following Jesus.” Can you actually do things on this list and call […]
Source: 10 Things You Can’t Vote For While Following Jesus | Mark Sandlin
Chronicles of the Cosmic Christ – The Washington Post
SHORTLY BEFORE his death in 1955, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest-paleontologist, wrote to a friend: “Less and less do I see any difference now between research and adoration.” The Heart of Matter , the 13th and final volume of his collected works, amply testifies to his uncompromising singleness of purpose. For Teilhard, all polarities — science and religion, matter and spirit, body and soul, prayer and work — are reconciled in what he calls the Cosmic Christ.While this Christ bears a strong resemblance to the Risen Lord St. Paul encountered on the road to Damascus and to the Apocalyptic Savior St. John described, there is one major difference. Teihard’s Christ is the glorious terminus of Matter’s evolutionary process, the result of Matter’s imperceptible transformation into Spirit.
Source: Chronicles of the Cosmic Christ – The Washington Post
A Conscious Universe? – Dr Rupert Sheldrake – YouTube
November 1, 2021 – by Heather Cox Richardson – Letters from an American
Americans appear to be waking up to the reality that our democracy is on the ropes. Emerging details about how hard Trump lawyer John Eastman pushed his memo with the plan of how Trump could steal the 2020 election, along with the chronology of the events surrounding the January 6 insurrection compiled by reporters for the Washington Post, show that we came perilously close to a successful coup d’état.
Source: November 1, 2021 – by Heather Cox Richardson – Letters from an American
November 1, 2021 – by Heather Cox Richardson – Letters from an American
Americans appear to be waking up to the reality that our democracy is on the ropes. Emerging details about how hard Trump lawyer John Eastman pushed his memo with the plan of how Trump could steal the 2020 election, along with the chronology of the events surrounding the January 6 insurrection compiled by reporters for the Washington Post, show that we came perilously close to a successful coup d’état.
Source: November 1, 2021 – by Heather Cox Richardson – Letters from an American
As A Scientist Investigated Notre-Dame’s Charred Remains, He Uncovered a Disturbing Secret
A year on from Notre-Dame’s devastating fire, the story has taken a terrifying twist.
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2021 “Introducing The Trinitarian Faith” Americas Course Promo – 2021 ITTF Course Promo on Vimeo
Perichoresis Ministries USA is proud to present Dr C Baxter Kruger as he leads an 11 Week Zoom Course, “Introducing the Trinitarian Faith” for the Americas.…
Source: 2021 “Introducing The Trinitarian Faith” Americas Course Promo – 2021 ITTF Course Promo on Vimeo
from text of a Video Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements (EMMP) (16 October 2021) | Francis
You are, as I said in the letter I sent you last year, a veritable invisible army; you are a fundamental part of that humanity that fights for life against a system of death. In this engagement I see the Lord who makes Himself present in our midst, to give to us His Kingdom as a gift. When He offered us the standard by which we will be judged (cf. Mt 25: 31-46), Jesus told us that salvation consists in taking care of the hungry, the sick, prisoners, foreigners; in short, in recognizing Him and serving Him in all suffering humanity. That is why I wish to say to you: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied” (Mt 5: 6), “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God” (Mt 5: 9). We want this beatitude to expand, to permeate and anoint every corner and every space where life is threatened. But it happens to us as people, as communities, as families and even individually, that we have to face situations that paralyze us, where the horizon disappears and bewilderment, fear, powerlessness and injustice seem to take over the present. We also experience resistance to the changes we need and long for, many forms of resistance that run deep, that are rooted beyond our strength and decisions. They are what the Social Teaching of the Church calls structures of sin; these too we are called to change, and we cannot overlook them in the moment of thinking of how to act. Personal change is necessary, but it is also indispensable to adjust our socio-economic models so that they have a human face, because many models have lost it. And thinking about these situations, I make a pest of myself with my questions. And I go on asking. And I ask everyone in the name of God.
