{"id":16118,"date":"2017-10-26T09:35:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16118"},"modified":"2017-10-26T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:44:10","slug":"faith-and-science-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16118","title":{"rendered":"Faith and Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Rohr<br \/>\n<strong>Climate Change<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, October 26, 2017<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CsjZ94K7UQs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nScience and religion should be natural partners when it comes to caring for our common home. As Christians, we have a clear mandate to steward Creation (see the invitation to \u201ccultivate and care for\u201d the earth in Genesis 2:15). Yet with real perversity, much of Judeo-Christian history has preferred the earlier verse, \u201cfill the Earth and subdue it\u201d (1:28), as license to exploit this world\u2014and even other peoples\u2014in an entirely selfish way. The Catholic Church\u2019s tragic \u201cDoctrine of Discovery\u201d even supported the conquest, oppression, and destruction of indigenous people and their lands. Once we feel free to objectify anything, we are no longer inside the life of the Trinity, which is always and entirely a subject-to- subject way of relating. Yet it is the same Church which teaches us this loving way of relating!<br \/>\nFor decades, since the first World Climate Conference in 1979, we have known that the globe is warming due to increased carbon emissions. Pope Francis has affirmed that climate change is real and is primarily \u201ca result of human activity.\u201d [1] Scientists, he says, \u201cspeak very clearly.\u201d [2] Oil and gas companies don\u2019t want us to stop using fossil fuels, so they have fabricated their own \u201cscience\u201d to deny climate change. [3] The debate has become politicized, and people create their own preferred reality, all evidence to the contrary.<br \/>\nToday we are no longer simply theorizing about, but actually witnessing intensified and more frequent hurricanes, coral reefs dying, glaciers rapidly melting, and sea levels rising. So many people and creatures will suffer and face extinction if we do not quickly change our lifestyle. Let us work together to creatively find solutions, to reduce our carbon footprint, to live more simply and sustainably on this, our only home. Humanity and the earth really will live or die together. The health of the planet and our continued existence depend upon our choices and actions.<br \/>\nPope Francis urges us:<br \/>\nGiven the complexity of the ecological crisis and its multiple causes, we need to realize that the solutions will not emerge from just one way of interpreting and transforming reality. Respect must also be shown for the various cultural riches of different peoples, their art and poetry, their interior life and spirituality. If we are truly concerned to develop an ecology capable of remedying the damage we have done,\u00a0no branch of the sciences and no form of\u00a0wisdom can be left out, and that includes religion and the language particular to it. [4]<br \/>\nOur goal is not to amass information or to satisfy curiosity, but rather to become painfully aware, to dare to turn what is happening to the world into our own personal suffering and thus to discover what each of us can do about it. [5]<br \/>\nTo rebuild spirituality \u201cfrom the bottom up,\u201d we must turn the valuable information of science and theology into transformation, change of heart, mind, and being. I invite you to learn about and connect with the suffering of someone or some place and discern your own part to play in healing our collective brokenness.<br \/>\nGateway to Silence:<br \/>\nDivine Reality, endlessly knowable<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a Missionary?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>By <a href=\"https:\/\/utmost.org\/oswald-chambers-bio\">Oswald Chambers<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><!-- \/.col-12 --> <!-- \/.row --><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\u00a0<strong>Jesus said to them again, &#8220;\u2026As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.&#8221; \u2014<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=31&amp;search=John+20%3A21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John 20:21<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">A missionary is someone sent by Jesus Christ just as He was sent by God. The great controlling factor is not the needs of people, but the command of Jesus. The source of our inspiration in our service for God is behind us, not ahead of us. The tendency today is to put the inspiration out in front\u2014 to sweep everything together in front of us and make it conform to our definition of success. But in the New Testament the inspiration is put behind us, and is the Lord Jesus Himself. The goal is to be true to Him\u2014 to carry out <em>His<\/em> plans.<\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Personal attachment to the Lord Jesus and to His perspective is the one thing that must not be overlooked. In missionary work the great danger is that God\u2019s call will be replaced by the needs of the people, to the point that human sympathy for those needs will absolutely overwhelm the meaning of being sent by Jesus. The needs are so enormous, and the conditions so difficult, that every power of the mind falters and fails. We tend to forget that the one great reason underneath all missionary work is not primarily the elevation of the people, their education, nor their needs, but is first and foremost the command of Jesus Christ\u2014 \u201cGo therefore and make disciples of all the nations\u2026\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+28:19\">Matthew 28:19<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>When looking back on the lives of men and women of God, the tendency is to say, \u201cWhat wonderfully keen and intelligent wisdom they had, and how perfectly they understood all that God wanted!\u201d But the keen and intelligent mind behind them was the mind of God, not human wisdom at all. We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were \u201cfoolish\u201d enough to trust God\u2019s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Rohr Climate Change Thursday, October 26, 2017 Science and religion should be natural partners when it comes to caring for our common home. As Christians, we have a clear mandate to steward Creation (see the invitation to \u201ccultivate and care for\u201d the earth in Genesis 2:15). 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