About five years ago, this led to consideration of climate impacts on the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Three years ago, the addition of teaching a course on Global Environment and International Policy at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska added impetus to this blog's creation.
Thus this blog is a vehicle to explore past, present and future thoughts on a wide range of issues and topics that relate to these areas of interest.
Thus this blog is a vehicle to explore past, present and future thoughts on a wide range of issues and topics that relate to these areas of interest.
These will range from climate science, social stability, and risk management to Biblical studies and Seventh-Day Adventist Church theology, impacts, needs and policies. Content may express, or cause others to experience a breadth of emotion, from hope to horror, joy to fear, disgust to outrage.
However, the intent is not to trigger an emotional reader experience, but engagement in "whole of systems" thinking on the systems, processes, alignment and disconnects and dichotomies of how the Seventh-Day Adventist Church relates to climate change and its disruptive effects on its own membership, their communities and global society, in interaction with its biblical worldview.
What is initiated here will be unpacked through future "Beginnings" posts. Topics will be identified by a general theme in each post heading. Posts may not come consistently given time constraints, but will reflect themes on "work in progress" or responses to issues or events. The Center and blog content are solely the concepts, thought and conclusions of the author, and not the Seventh-Day Adventist Church or its entities unless so identified.
It is my hope that this blog will trigger further discussion on how the Seventh-Day Adventist Church will interact with climate disruption in relation to its members, institutions, theology and the global community.
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