by John Pitney | Dec 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
Eugene Lightkeepers: Jessie and Tommy: Rev. Jessie Cummins just graduated from United Methodist seminary in Chicago where husband Tommy was teaching in the inner city. Last fall, Jessie officiated the wedding of Amy and Erin, leading the congregation...
by John Pitney | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
In the months leading up to our sacred seasons of Hanukkah, Advent and Kwanza climate reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the World Health Organization (WHO), the 3rd U.S. National Climate Assessment…even the Trump Administration…have...
by John Pitney | Nov 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
How do we welcome our innocent newborns to a Planet where once there used to be more wonder than now? The years of our lives have become a calendar for the destiny of Earth, framed by the greenhouse gas emission history we are plotting for good or ill. I was born in...
by John Pitney | Nov 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Kathleen Dean Moore writes, in A Pine Island Paradox, “The most loving thing you can say to another person is ‘Look!’ And the most loving stance isn’t a close embrace, but two people standing side by side looking out on the world together. Because when we look, we...
by John Pitney | Nov 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
How do we make this world worthy of our children? I’m sure we’d all like to know. The way we’re going, more and more potentially great parents are choosing not to bear children because of who we’ve become and what we continue to do to our human neighbors and our...
by John Pitney | Nov 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Several times already we’ve had the privilege of rising early and taking the little guy from his parents at 5:30 am to rock and hold him so Mother can rest and recharge between nursings and Father can catch some zzzzzz’s. At 2 days, I rocked him in the dark, listening...
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