http://dennisgruending.ca/pulpitandpolitics/2009/10/26/karen-armstrong-tim-flannery-god-and-climate/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:19:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://dennisgruending.ca/pulpitandpolitics/2009/10/26/karen-armstrong-tim-flannery-god-and-climate/#comment-7905 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:07:18 +0000 http://dennisgruending.ca/pulpitandpolitics/2009/10/26/karen-armstrong-tim-flannery-god-and-climate/#comment-7905 Perhaps we have become consumed with problems of the economy, while religions seem to be pre-occupied with sectarian issues. Whether or not one loses one's job, or one's home, is a REAL problem; whether or not we lose our earth's life-sustaining capability is a REAL problem; whether or not religious sectarian issues are REAL problems seems questionable! Perhaps we have become consumed with problems of the economy, while religions seem to be pre-occupied with sectarian issues. Whether or not one loses one’s job, or one’s home, is a REAL problem; whether or not we lose our earth’s life-sustaining capability is a REAL problem; whether or not religious sectarian issues are REAL problems seems questionable!

]]> http://dennisgruending.ca/pulpitandpolitics/2009/10/26/karen-armstrong-tim-flannery-god-and-climate/#comment-7715 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:51:54 +0000 http://dennisgruending.ca/pulpitandpolitics/2009/10/26/karen-armstrong-tim-flannery-god-and-climate/#comment-7715 Endless talk without action has always been a very human problem. Talk is often a replacement for action. With problems so pressing as we experience to day, we may ask, "Where do we start". Not everyone can handle everything at every level. In a culture of ceaseless activity, most people have difficulty finding a centre from which they can healthily operate. Responding only to "what's out there", they soon burn out. We do violence to ourselves if we do not hold the inner and the outer together in some creative tension. We must proceed from what is both personal and communal to what can be at both levels. We do need to talk and to act. We do need to pray and to act non-violently. Endless talk without action has always been a very human problem. Talk is often a replacement for action. With problems so pressing as we experience to day, we may ask, “Where do we start”. Not everyone can handle everything at every level. In a culture of ceaseless activity, most people have difficulty finding a centre from which they can healthily operate. Responding only to “what’s out there”, they soon burn out. We do violence to ourselves if we do not hold the inner and the outer together in some creative tension. We must proceed from what is both personal and communal to what can be at both levels. We do need to talk and to act.
We do need to pray and to act non-violently.

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