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Following the Eco-Realism Consultation, John and Lowell felt it was fitting to visit the Museum of the American Indian on the Mall in Washington, DC. It was a chance to begin contemplating what now is clear and what now calls to us. This exhibit features the work of the Water Protectors at Standing Rock in the winter of 2016-2017. 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What are the risks of reaching out to others who may (or may not) be Early Majority? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/1708980268950-0IMNC52FW26Y3B4Y723U/New+Haven+Storm.jpg Eco Realism Papers - What is the Work of our Consultation?: Expectations and "Homework" - Recommended Homework for Consultants Identify—if you care to or if you can—”some issue or opportunity related to our theme for which you have genuine passion and for which you will take real responsibility. Don’t just consider good ideas that somebody else might do or be interested in. Think of powerful ideas that really grab you to the point that you will take personal responsibility to make sure that [the topic gets discussed and/or] something gets done. If nothing occurs to you, that is okay, and if if you have more than one issue or opportunity, that is fine too” (Owens, 86). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/49a850e0-1ef5-415c-8013-db4302f418c3/Screenshot+2024-07-02+at+7.22.15%E2%80%AFPM.png Eco Realism Papers - What is the Work of our Consultation?: Expectations and "Homework" - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/47b6b51b-9734-4584-b1d5-d2bf2a19f5e8/9a16b842-4306-49e0-a23d-2fa2cedd6366_2404x836.jpg Eco Realism Papers - What is the Work of our Consultation?: Expectations and "Homework" - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/1708980268950-0IMNC52FW26Y3B4Y723U/New+Haven+Storm.jpg Eco Realism Papers - What is the Work of our Consultation?: Expectations and "Homework" - Recommended Homework for Apocalypticists * If you can, please listen to Dr. Grey’s lecture before the Consultation. *We highly recommend McLaren’s book for whenever you can get your hands on it. http://www.edenvigil.org/eco-realism-papers/2024/6/12/a-second-consultation-graph-of-the-apocalyptic-and-systemic monthly 0.5 2024-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/1d4327d6-2953-4aaa-abc6-ec71d42be39b/Slide1.jpeg Eco Realism Papers - The Apocalyptic and Systemic: A Second Consultation Graph - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.edenvigil.org/eco-realism-papers/2024/6/7/two-initial-responses-to-consultation-paper-4 monthly 0.5 2024-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/5b3e9a3c-91f7-460d-8d7e-0717c9e60938/Slide1.png Eco Realism Papers - Two Initial Responses to Consultation Paper #4 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/20692d9c-68d1-48e7-8199-d1ffbe52bc69/Screenshot+2024-06-07+at+9.35.03%E2%80%AFAM.png Eco Realism Papers - Two Initial Responses to Consultation Paper #4 - Introducing BORROWED TIME, a project of Green Christian (U.K.) Our Consultation is delighted to connect with Andii Bowsher and his colleagues at Borrowed Time who are already ministering in the eco-realistic space and whose purpose “is to support each other in the work of opening to environmental breakdown.” Please explore their model at https://borrowedtime.earth http://www.edenvigil.org/eco-realism-papers/2024/6/4/paper-4-reimagining-faith-for-the-new-future monthly 0.5 2024-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/9a120c06-5d95-44d8-8627-ee8346dddbfc/DouglasHall-1.png Eco Realism Papers - Paper #4: Reimagining Faith for the New Future - Make it stand out Theologian Douglas John Hall (born 1928), is introduced by Tripp Fuller as “Canada’s greatest living theologian & emeritus professor of theology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He is a theologian of the cross, a contextual theologian, and a wonderfully articulate one as well.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/c5df843f-26fa-41e8-8508-3c2fa4e0a99a/Slide1.jpeg Eco Realism Papers - Paper #4: Reimagining Faith for the New Future - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/e8549f44-6e6e-448e-80ee-8b4cd9e453fe/Cross+in+COntext+2.jpg Eco Realism Papers - Paper #4: Reimagining Faith for the New Future - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.edenvigil.org/eco-realism-papers/2024/5/13/two-initial-responses-to-consultation-paper-3 monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/fbc47892-9309-48d3-93c0-ed4dc1df6818/Screenshot+2024-05-13+at+6.18.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Eco Realism Papers - Two Initial Responses to Consultation Paper #3 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.edenvigil.org/eco-realism-papers/2024/5/6/paper-3-eco-realism-and-re-imagined-ministry-in-a-new-future-from-the-y-axis-to-the-x- monthly 0.5 2024-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/cbab3540-395a-4986-943d-7e0da07400ba/35687080_10157739662209152_447707837611638784_n.jpg Eco Realism Papers - Paper #3: Eco-Realism and Re-imagined Ministry in a New Future (from the Y-Axis to the X-) - Make it stand out The author’s children visit the Ten Boom Museum and “The Hiding Place” in Haarlem, the Netherlands, April 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/102485f1-e67c-4043-ac3d-a82d5348a7d3/Slide1.png Eco Realism Papers - Paper #3: Eco-Realism and Re-imagined Ministry in a New Future (from the Y-Axis to the X-) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/1785aacf-22c7-489a-a01a-5d8e60f9a0ef/610a3%2B4KU6L._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg Eco Realism Papers - Paper #3: Eco-Realism and Re-imagined Ministry in a New Future (from the Y-Axis to the X-) 1. There are numerous titles mentioned in the references and footnotes of Paper #3. You may wish to explore a book that interests you. 2. If our Consultation is a “re-imagination” then we are well-served by the Arts, in this case by Kim Stanley Robiinson’s cli-fi novel, The Ministry for the Future. Set in the years 2024-2058, MftF has been described as “the best scenario we can still believe in.” Robinson claims that he writes neither dystopian nor utopian science fiction, but rather “op-topian” where his optimism is nonetheless guided by the novelist’s mandate for plausibility and the near-future’s demand for eco-realism. 3. If you have already read MftF but would like a refresher, or if the prospects of reading 563 pages is daunting, you may wish to listen to Jeffrey Sachs’s interview with Robinson, where among other topics they address Robinson’s depiction of violence and eco-terrorism. The podcast is Season 2, Episode 11 of “Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs” or the YouTube broadcast of it is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5zDh16Muw http://www.edenvigil.org/eco-realism-papers/2024/4/3/two-initial-responses-to-consultation-paper-2 monthly 0.5 2024-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5797b97dd2b85733fa14fcf0/255d67e4-68e1-429c-a05a-8d3e9fe9d330/Slide1+2.jpeg Eco Realism Papers - Two Initial Responses to Consultation Paper #2 - Make it stand out Our first two responses to our pre-Consultation Paper #2 come from Dr. Isaac Sharp and Lowell Bliss. (Their bios are printed at the end of their responses.) To read the second paper, please click here. Isaac and Lowell are addressing the second premise. 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Read this 7-page pdf article here: Hall, D.J. Theology of the Cross: Challenge and Opportunity for the Post-Christendom Church. ARC, The Journal of the Religious Studies 2005, 33, 47-477. 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