We, voices from faith communities across the world, join in prayer for meaningful decisions at the climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow.We pray for courage and compassion to transform those human… Read More »COP26 – A Common Prayer
This morning I was listening to an interview with a U of T student on CBC Metro morning. She was getting ready to spend Reading Week in Glasgow with other… Read More »COP26, day 4 reflection
My daughter dear Emma twigged me to this splendid song, by one of her singer/songwriter hero(in)es, Karine Polwart.Enough is Enough — the music collective Oi Musica has made recordings and lyrics… Read More »COP 26 – Day 5 Enough is Enough
What would the world be once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left Let them be left, the wildness and wet Long live the weeds and the… Read More »COP 26 – Day 4
Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address Greetings to the Natural World The People Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to… Read More »COP26 – Day 3
May the Holy One open the hearts of all those gathered at COP 26 to listen to the wisdom of the earth. How surely gravity’s law, strong as an ocean… Read More »COP26 – Day 2
Dear friends, During the chat after today’s HT service, we decided that it would be a great idea if people posted prayers, thoughts, poems, and art during the COP26 conference in… Read More »COP26 – Day 1
As I approached this service and read the appointed readings I was struck by the sense of end times captured there. In our present era it feels as if we are in the end times. It gives me more sympathy for the writers of these apocalyptic pieces and helped me decide not to jettison them in favour of Maya Anjelou or Richard Wagamese as I might otherwise be tempted to do.
Of apocalytic texts in general, the theologian Ched Myers, who has preached here on a few occasions has this to say:
Read More »Resisting Apocalypse“Apocalyptic discourse in the Bible is not about predicting God’s cataclysmic destruction of the world, as so often assumed in popular culture. Rather it expresses the fierce imagination of those who long for the end of destructive oppression by the imperial state. After all, for the poor, the “end of the world” is already and forever being visited upon their communities by soldiers and fortune hunters and police.
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