NO ES UN JUEGO

El mundo requiere más estrategias nuevas y creativas. No es un juego, pero como jugando podemos mejorar la calidad de nuestra vida si realmente queremos hacerlo.

No te rindas, apuesta por el respeto al medioambiente.

A Press Statement of the Three Church Mother Bodies on Violence

Thanks to Cristina Vargas for this press statement from the Three Church Mother Bodies in Zambia.

“Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a robbers’ den” (Jn 2:16).

 

We the three Christian Church Umbrella Bodies namely: the Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) and the Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) are deeply saddened at the rampant political violence that has popped its ugly face in Zambia once again.  This violence has now moved from the political arena into the house of God!  What happened recently at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross is unprecedented and a great shame to this God-fearing nation. We issue this statement as Churches because it cannot be business as usual. That the violence was spearheaded by the Patriotic Front (PF) cadres who only a few months ago were on the receiving end of such violence makes us wonder if this is truly the change Zambians wanted. The manner of the violence, at the Cathedral, suggests pre-meditated and planned behaviour.  This is evil and wrong.  READ MORE.

Steroids, Baseball, and Climate Change

Why do intelligent people reject scientific evidence of climate change and its impact?  Two interesting articles and an insightful video address this issue.

CLICK HERE to read an article by author Chris Mooney, "NASA warned New York about hurricane danger six years ago," www.motherjones.com, 10/30/12) which talks about people being "science-phobic," rejecting clear warnings by reputable scientists and treating climate change as something of interest only to the few "climate change people."

George Lakoff, cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley comes at the issue from another perspective, i.e. that of language.

CLICK HERE to read Lakoff's article, "Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy," www.huffingtonpost.com, 10/30/12) which says that the issue is not just the science around climate change, it's also the semantics. He distinguishes between a systemic cause and a direct cause, saying, "Semantics matters....Where do we start? With language. Add systemic causation to your vocabulary. Communicate the concept."

CLICK HERE to see the video, "Steroids, Baseball, and Climate Change," a clear and insightful visual presentation of George Lakoff's idea about systemic causes.

40% de los conflictos sociales en el mundo tienen como causa directa la explotación de los recursos naturales

Election 2012: Two Key Questions

CLICK HERE
for a short article by Nick Mele,
Pax Christi USA National Council Member
in which he reflects on

two key questions

which apply both to the elections
and to life in general.