A poem for your friday

8 February 2016

“The Heaven of Animals” by James L. Dickey Here they are. The soft eyes open. If they have lived in a wood It is a wood. If they have lived on plains It is grass rolling Under their feet forever. Having no souls, they have come, Anyway, beyond their knowing. Their instincts wholly bloom And they rise. The soft eyes open. To match them, the landscape flowers, Outdoing, desperately Outdoing what is required: The richest wood, The deepest field.

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Address to the People’s Climate March

30 September 2014

I devoted some time these past six weeks to helping organise a people’s climate march in Edinburgh. Given our research focus on how Christians and faith communities mobilise for action around climate change and other related ecological issues, this probably doesn’t come as a surprise. What did surprise many people, myself included, was the extent of the march (pictures here) that occurred last Sunday (21 Sep 2014). We had hoped for 200-300 and by most estimates, we had nearly 3000 people marching through the streets of Edinburgh committing themselves to action and calling on our nation’s leaders here in Scotland to address climate change in substantial ways.

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Recent Papers

  • “Mapping Environmental Action.” TBD Abstract  pdf
  • The Theology of Craft and the Craft of Work: From Tabernacle to Eucharist. Routledge. Abstract
  • “Changing Uses of Old and New Media in World Christianity” co-authored with Jolyon Mitchell, in Lamin Sanneh and Michael McClymond, eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity (Oxford: Blackwell, 2016) Abstract  pdf
  • “Hybrid Encounters in Reconciliation Ecology” in Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, vol 20, issue 3, (Oct, 2016) Abstract  pdf
  • Time for Business: Business Ethics, Sustainability, and Giorgio Agamben’s ‘Messianic Time’ in De Ethica vol 2, issue 3, pp. 39-51 (Jan 29, 2016). Abstract  pdf

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