Brad Boydston

No More Climate Worship: The Theology of Denial Comes to the Pentagon Climate skeptics, including leaders in the Pentagon, frame environmentalism as a “religion” to justify rolling back climate policy.

DON'T PANIC. THE ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RHETORIC ISN'T NEW.
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Stig om telefonförsäljning: ”Oseriöst” - Radio Sweden på lätt svenska Konsumentverket föreslår att telefonförsäljning förbjuds. Alltså att det blir förbjudet för säljare att ringa folk och sälja saker som mobilabonnemang ...

THE SWEDISH CONSUMER AGENCY is proposing that over-the-phone sales be banned. It sounds like a wonderful idea but are they taking the nanny state thing too far? www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/stig...

DYNAMIC FUEL PRICING? Some of the area gasoline stations seem to be changing their prices multiple times a day. For example, we pass by at 11:30 AM and the advertised price is $2.93/gallon but when we drive by at 12:30, it’s $3.15. At 3 PM the price is $2.89. Has anyone else noticed this happening?

Over the years I've come to appreciate the edition published by a bunch of lively Lutherans at GroundUpGrace.com.

The practice of having a biblical text as a shared daily "Watchword" among the Moravian Christians at Herrnhut began in 1722. These texts now extend way beyond the Moravian world and I started teaching my Spiritual Formation students at Pacific Islands University how to use them.

Since 2015, I've been modeling one way of using the MORAVIAN DAILY TEXTS as a simple way of maintaining a daily conversation with God. They have been published at DailyTexts.org and today's post is #4,000. There are about 1,200 viewers each day.

TUESDAY IS EARTH DAY
If everyone on our planet consumed resources at the level of the US, the planet would need to have 5.1 times the amount of resources the planet has available. overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/how-many-ear...

YouTube video by Andrew Millison How Refugees are Greening the Edge of the Sahara

REFUGEES CHANGING THE NARRATIVE
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Emerging pineapple fruit on plant

Emerging pineapple fruit on plant

FLORA FRIDAY — One of my pineapple plants is starting to develop fruit. It sits next to a hallway window at Covenant Living of Florida so it is also developing a fan club among the residents.

‘Don’t Fight the Stupidity’ and Other Relevant Bonhoeffer Advice Lessons from Bonhoeffer's essay on Christian life under authoritarianism.

DON'T FIGHT THE STUPIDITY...
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Legendary former NIH director retires from embattled agency Dr. Francis Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency is facing cutbacks and restrictions under the Trump administration.

STELLAR LEADER RETIRING
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Gut-wrenching love: What a fresh look at the ‘Good Samaritan’ story says for ethics today (The Conversation) — Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.

OPINION: Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.

WAKING UP THIS MORNING TO THE SOUND OF ROOSTERS outside our Guam hotel. It's one of the many things I miss about living on the island.

What's the secret to Denmark's happy work-life balance? The Nordic nation doesn't require staff to work long hours and has a generous welfare system.

DANISH WORK-LIFE BALANCE
"Only 1.1% of Danes have to work 50 or more hours a week..." In the US it's over 10%.

"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity." Dr Martin Luther King, Jr meme

The existence of Jimmy Carter continues to force us to ask the hard questions.

Can a good man be president? (RNS) — Maybe this is a lesson of the Carter administration, that true Christianity often finds itself drawn away from places of power and down in the muck.

OPINION: As president, Carter accomplished a great deal more than he is given credit for and was a far more savvy politician than the subsequent smear campaign would lead you to believe.

There's an incredibly strong connection between educational attainment and interpersonal trust.

Among people who have a graduate degree, 56% say that "people can generally be trusted."

Among those who went no further than high school, it's just 19%.

Peter Yarrow of folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 86 The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at age 86.

A DRAGON LIVES FOREVER but not so little boys...

Gott Nytt År!

Billionaires like Musk give to charity and get something from it too "Philanthropic cakeism" is the new paradigm for donors.

CHARITY AIN'T WHAT IS USED TO BE
"While red-blooded capitalists use charitable donations to help advance their individual or corporate goals, philanthropists are increasingly moving away from gifts, grants, and donations and toward vehicles that allow them to retain their wealth."

YouTube video by Made to Flourish Work is Beautiful: The Florist's Story

"The priesthood of all believers did not make everyone into church workers; rather, it turned every kind of work into a sacred calling." #Covocational

~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.
(Take 2 minutes to watch this video!)
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I have psoriatic arthritis, too. My extreme flare-ups dropped significantly when I gave up meat. What is it about coffee that triggers? Everyone is so different in what triggers flare ups.

I would appreciate a .pdf. Thanks! bboydston@piu.edu

A New Zealander studied for a year to win the Spanish world Scrabble title. He doesn’t speak Spanish A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-language world title.

I'VE BEEN DOING IT ALL WRONG
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Movie Review: A wordless Latvian cat parable about climate change is the year's best animated movie “Flow” is quite easily the best animated movie of the year and one of the most poetic ecological parables in recent memory, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review.

ON MY WATCH LIST

When is St. Nicholas Day? And how did this Christian saint inspire the Santa Claus legend? NEW YORK (AP) — The legends surrounding jolly old St. Nicholas — celebrated annually on Dec. 6 — go way beyond delivering candy and toys to children.

HAPPY ST NICHOLAS DAY
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Hawaiian crow that went extinct in the wild decades ago released on Maui Conservationists say five Hawaiian crows have been released on Maui for the first time as part of an ongoing effort to return the species to its home.

WE COULD USE A SUCCESS ABOUT NOW
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AP PHOTOS: Starlings, Indonesia's bicycle coffee sellers, peddle the streets of Jakarta Bicycles roam the streets of Indonesia's capital with dozens of plastic sachets of coffee and other packaged drinks dangling from their handlebars.

BIKE BASED BUSINESS
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Grocery stores that donate expiring food − instead of price discounting or discarding − make higher profits Supply chain improvements could help lower the food insecurity rate and reduce food waste while boosting profits for retailers.

Stores that remove items on the brink of expiration, donate them to food banks and fill up the emptied shelf space with fresher inventory get more revenue from sales and earn higher profits.