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Jim Antal alongside some other advocates for the planet |
- Be not afraid
- Henri's attitude towards the environment
- After Yale, ambivalence about academia
- Then Harvard - Henri was the most popular among lecturers
- As someone who sought accolades, he left Harvard even though he was one the the school's most popular professors
- Supported protest by FOR and Sojourners
- Jailed for 3 days - anti-nuclear protests
- Henri did one act plays on Vincent Van Gogh, played Chopin, fearlessly lived life
- Laid bare his fears, vulnerabilities
- Henri's unresolved anxiety would last at times for days. Pain expressed in anxiety rather than grief
- Henri had the courage to name his and our fears
- he repeatedly encouraged us to move from the house of fear to the house of love
- Fear has no ultimate power -
- Only Love has power and with Love comes the power of the Holy Spirit
- Henri to Jim 'God needs you to be a minister
- Do not be afraid'
- And when Jim announced his engagement, Henri insisted: 'we are called to be generative' despite the nuclear threat
- Fear not / Jesus most repeated advice
- We need this courage
- Courage coming from unceasing prayer
- Prayer is an antidote to fear
- Connecting the life of prayer with the life of activism
- Prayer is a very dangerous and subversive act that threatens the powers of the world
- 1978 - writing from Assisi, Henri reflecting on the witness of St. Francis wrote: 'From here the world is different, the world is upside done, totally...'
- Everything has to be asked again
- St Francis speaks from every stone
- Not allowing the stones of Rome silence me
- Being deaf is the opposite of obedience
- Feb 1982 - love casts out fear and how powerful we are when we move beyond fear - how love moves mountains
- Writing about the day of the Lord - can't go there, it feels like touching the sun
- Only as a deep lover can you risk your life!
- To speak out is to be keenly aware of the world's homelessness
- While I was exhausting myself resisting war, the appetite for war around me was increasing
- When we radiate the peace of Christ, we radiate a peace that is transformative
- otherwise we can be expressions of war even while advocating for peace
- Stay aligned with God through prayers - resisting the world's anger by prayer
Contemporary advocates for God's creation
- Nuns on the bus
- Climate change is the ultimate cause on which all other causes are hedged
- Creation is the expression of God's hospitality
- The continuity of creation is over
- In our time, the fact that creation is hospitable is no longer true
- If creation becomes inhospitable the question of God's hospitality is in question, even though the cause for the planet's degradation is us and not God
- We are harmed the home of our host
- Species extinction is 1000 times faster than 50 years ago
- How frequently are you preaching on climate change?
- We are letting God's creation go
- If we don't preach this, the next generation of the church will be nothing other than processing the grief of having let the world be destroyed
- We need a transition to a circular economy, to censure greed
- The doctrine of the public trust must be restored
- No one should be able to own nature
- Reclaim fiduciary responsibilities
- It has become perfectly legal to invest in the very investments that destroy the environment we, including the investors, live in
- Capacitating the church to turn the tide for climate change
- 1978 Exxon hired the best climate change scientists in the world only to subsequently bury what these scientists discovered
- The US and specifically Exxon buried the reports about climate change - the US is the only place where climate change is denied
- Encourage our faith communities to submit to various authorities an appeal for the earth
- The rug has been pulled from the assumptions themselves
- We are responsible to stand up for creation
- Peter and Paul spend more time in jail after the resurrection than out
- Make civil disobedience a matter of discipleship as much as prayer, a matter that we should make normative
- Civil disobedience should be normative to us as Christians
- Breaking a law intentionally to question the legitimacy of the law
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