Climate change

I stumbled across an interesting blog the other day. You can see it here. It is all about everybody's favorite topic of global climate change. A topic that is sure to make you popular at whatever party you go to.

I have been discouraged at the Evangelical reaction to global warming, feeling that there is no room to express even an inclination to believe that it is happening. I also have been unsure as to how widely accepted it is in the scientific community- how much debate is going on about its existence.

That question was answered by the nifty pie-chart below. Now I just need to figure out why it is such a hot button concept in church circles.
















Source: The Desmog Blog

14 December 2012

This is a dark day. It is hard to think to be happy or excited for Christmas when there are nearly thirty people dead at the hands of one man. I see the little kids around me and think of my six year old friend E and cannot imagine the grief that others must feel now.

Let us sit and weep. For the brokenness of man, for the souls now departed and the ones left behind.

Emmanuel has come. But this world is still a dark, broken, scary place.

Show yourself, My God.

Behold!

Something I wrote got re-posted to a blog. That other people read! See the evidence here. (The title says "Guest Poet". Those are strong words to use. More like "nerdy fluke".)

A poem written while looking at trees in the fall

The trees once so full

of green light, offering

shade to the lovers in the summer heat,

have now in a burst of fiery glory

or in subtle modest browns,

begun shedding their coats.

Baring their naked souls-

an act of defiance against


the cold, harsh winter.

Standing as silent reminders that life will spring forth

Again.

This song has been running through my head quite a bit lately. And the rest of the album.