What in the world can two evangelical Christians from West Texas teach Americans about global warming? A lot, it turns out. In A Climate for Change, the authors tactfully and forcefully make the case to skeptical conservative Christians that (1) climate change is real and (2) Christians should be working in this issue for myriad faith-based reasons. Katherine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley are spouses teaching at Texas Tech here in my beloved Lone Star State. You may have heard of Farley because he has written several […]
It’s a statement that acknowledges that grief and hope can coexist.
Rebecca Solnit’s publisher was giving away free copies of “Hope in the Dark” in the days after the election, and I jumped all over it as fast as I could. I loved Solnit’s “Men Explain Things to Me” which, among other things, made it clear that she is an expert on many things besides misogyny and feminism. And boy, is she. “Hope in the Dark,” which is an examination of the history of civil disobendience and social change, was the salve, and the inspiration/kick-in-the-butt, and […]
There is No More Status Quo, But the Sun Comes Up and the World Still Spins
This is one of those books that has a terrible description on Amazon and Goodreads. They both call it “haunting.” Amazon says it’s a “story of people finding ways to go on, in an ever-evolving world.” Goodreads says it’s “about coming of age during extraordinary times.” Pardon me if I’m being obtuse, but isn’t every fiction book about people finding ways to go on, in some way or another? If someone hands you a YA book and says it’s about coming of age in an […]
Holy Science
For the record, I am not Catholic, although I did go to a Catholic (Jesuit) university. When this text was first published it was all over the news about how the Pope was trying to influence the politics of environmentalism and how a religious leader should not talk politics or science. Naturally this was quickly countered by people pointing out that the Pope is technically a head of state (the Vatican being a sovereign nation) and also a scientist (an MA in chemistry). I saw […]