Sleet and snow all day yesterday. By mid-morning, every twig of every tree was a crystal shaft. It’s an enforced Sabbath. No lamps are lit today—the sunlight, unobstructed by foliage, refracts from the snow into every window. Bread is rising over the woodstove. I’m thinking of mixing pesto from last summer’s basil and garlic. […]
5 pounds of coal– two hours of electricity per person I wanted to make a table display, an un-powerpoint visual to take when I’m speaking, a reminder that what flows invisibly from the wall as electricity begins as burning rocks. I recalled that the basement of an old house where I once lived in Georgia […]
Here is a news article on the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) website about Inhabiting Eden… New Book from Presbyterian Author Offers Biblical Guidance on Today’s Ecological Crisis I am delighted with the many invitations to speak and teach coming up. Please do contact me if you would like me to speak, preach, lead a retreat, or […]
The Louisville Festival of Faiths Fall Forum met at Bellarmine U. Friday. Titled “The Energy Independence Boom: A Call for Religious Leadership,” it was planned by several local Catholic orders, including the Dominican sisters, the Sisters of Loretto, and the Sisters of Charity. My friend Robbie Pentecost, a Franciscan sister in Appalachia, was front and […]
It’s 27 degrees outside. I didn’t want to leave the cozy stove to make breakfast. So, after a little inspirational reading, I tried an experiment I should have tried long ago. The eggs and bread came from Esther and David Miller at the Jeffersonville Farmers’ Market (Winter Market is in our church’s gym). Butter came […]
Yesterday I was leading a Sunday school discussion of environmental justice. A social worker pointed out the high incidence of cancer in neighbors of the industrial area known as Rubbertown in west Louisville. Others brought up radiation poisoning in Afghanistan from U.S. weapons, the problem of products (classically, lead paint, asbestos, and DDT) becoming widely […]
Soon after college, I wanted to build an earth-sheltered house with skills I didn’t possess, on land I didn’t own, in a place I’d never lived. Having been surprised to learn that Campbell’s had not actually invented soup, I would research prices at the grocery, and write little essays on the economics, and the joys, […]