For many trauma survivors, suicidal ideation isn't a desire to cease existing--it reflects a desire to escape a physical body or a social environment that make actual "living" impossible. It's paradoxical, but that desire to "die" is actually a desire to truly...
An environment that is not safe to disagree in is not an environment focused on growth--it's an environment focused on control.
The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream, and what you do to the environment, ultimately, you do to yourself.
I was waiting in line for a ride at the airport. When a cab pulled up, the first thing I noticed was the taxi was polished to a bright shine. Smartly dressed in a white shirt, black tie, and freshly pressed black slacks, the cab driver jumped out and rounded the car...
As I was lying on a gurney in pre-op awaiting knee replacement surgery three days before Christmas, before the “happy drugs” were administered, I noticed a painting on the wall beside the gurney. It was rather nondescript, a field of blue flowers in a garden of rocks...
The idea that we live in something called "the environment" is utterly preposterous... The world that environs us, that is around us, is also within us. We are made of it; we eat, drink, and breathe it; it is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh.
The invitation to work for social justice is one of the essential, nonnegotiable pillars within Christian spirituality... Social justice has to do with changing the way the world is organized so as to make a level playing field for everyone. In simple terms this means...