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April 21, 2008
By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck, Managing Editor
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Radio Netherlands reports that classical music concerts can be responsible for 50 tons of carbon emissions. Since the Dutch don’t have enough land for the number of trees it would take to cancel that out, one organizer is donating concert revenue to a project for using cow manure to make electricity.
Here in Canada, the CBC reports that cattle emit 200 to 300 litres of methane per day, and there’s about 1.2 billion of them. Never mind the sheep, goats, camels and water buffalo. Meanwhile, back in 2006, according to a Buddhist blogger, the New York Times was already blaming cows for 18% of climate change-causing methane emissions.
So. We use the cows to fuel the concerts to reduce climate change, but we’ve got to get rid of the cows to reduce climate change. Sounds like the global initiative is a well-orchestrated, streamlined logic machine to me.
And that’s my opinionated opinion for this week. Ta ta!
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April 14, 2008
By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck, Managing Editor
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…No, I don’t mean what you might find up the nose of a Christian with a cold.
TheBereanCall.org’s radio program, Search the Scriptures Daily, quotes an Orlando Sentinel article from Feb 22/08 on evangelicals and global warming:
“Global warming is an offense against God….America needs our biblical outrage….we as a nation will face a judgment from God if we don’t do this.”
– Rev. Richard Cizik, National Association of Evangelicals’ vice-president of governmental affairs
Cizik has been covered by enviro mag Grist, the Washington Post, PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and Christianity Today for his opinions on global warming. Other major evangelical leaders, including James Dobson, have called for him to be silenced or fired for his stance on the climate change controversy. According to a quote referenced by Christianity Today, Jerry Falwell brands it “be[ing] duped by these ‘earthism’ worshippers.”
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November 03, 2007
By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck, Managing Editor
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Today’s guest blogger is Lena Nelson Dooley, a multi-published author and experienced speaker. When Lena tackles anything to do with writing, you know you’re going to get an informed opinion. So, let’s hear her take on the odd subject of… a Christian vampire horror novel?
You got it. The book is Never Ceese by Sue Dent, and like Hallowe’en, its nature is controversial in Christian religious circles. Here’s Lena to give us a look beneath the surface.
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September 19, 2007
By: Marty
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Ok, this is nuts. I know it has been all over the news but I am really surprised that there isn’t more of a public outcry over this sort of nonsense.
Clearly this is a police agency in the United States squelching somebody and their opinion. Is this freedom of speech?
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August 12, 2007
By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck, Managing Editor
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Getting back to the land, owning an acreage or a small farm, is a really cool fad these days. Everyone’s doing it, you know.
For one, it seems to mesh with a certain portion of the Christian homeschooling community, so well that conservative Christian businessfolk Paul and Gena Suarez expanded their online business to cater to Christian homesteaders. What began as The Old Schoolhouse Magazine and HomeschoolBlogger.com now includes HomesteadBlogger.com, which amounts to an online small town in both size and culture.
What’s the deal? Well, the rhetoric about good management of the earth comes from a couple of directions—one, it comes from within the churches. What amounts to campaign materials are handed out to churches and denominations. These even include sermon suggestions for incorporating concern for the earth. [1]
Two, like those campaign materials, the rhetoric comes from secular sources. Accusations link Christianity to male domination and exploitation of, like, everything—women, children, and dolphins. (I had no idea my church’s deacons had so much spare time on their hands.) Homesteading and ecological awareness is one response from the Christian community.
Most of all, though, there is realistic motivation for individuals as they pick up on the realities of our food distribution system. People aren’t satisfied with blueberries that have been sitting on the boat from Chile for a month. [2] Folks are absorbing a perennial flow of news items about environmental concerns, and an ever-expanding grassroots buzz about better living.
The sustainability movement has links to globalism, and also contains plenty of pagan philosophy. Are Christians aware of everything they’re adopting? And what about pagans? I’ve seen several pagans try to integrate into the HomesteadBlogger community, only to end up leaving or limiting their participation, for various reasons. Do Christians handle these interactions wisely?
Lemme know what you think. [3]
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[1] Forcing Change Magazine, Issue 6, Volume 1, www.forcingchange.org
[2] See http://lazycreek.net/TYDOS/2007/04/seasonal-produce-and-winter-eating.html for more information.
[3] Author’s note: The uploading of this post was fraught with homesteading peril, so I appeal to the record for grounds that my frazzled nerves deserve the contribution of your opinion, dear reader.
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