Moping Through Sunday

 I do not know what else to call what I have done today.

The laundry done. Meals were eaten. I re-worked the brief one more time. My eyes tired out twice and are about to do so right now. The email is almost manageable. The only thing written of any worth was my post Things That Make Me Go Huh at 7:00 AM On a Sunday.

I am done for today. I should take a walk, but it looks like rain.

I forgot to mention this yesterday:

Thank you for applying to the Sales Associate position at Wild Side Smoke Shop.

Unfortunately, Wild Side Smoke Shop has moved to the next step in their hiring process, and your application was not selected at this time.

 Oh, well.

I have read James M. Cain, and I like him. People may not like his America, but it sure seems real to me. So I spent time with The Guardian's Lost story by ‘poet of the tabloid murder’ James M Cain discovered in Library of Congress while waiting on my laundry.

I read the review from Pitchfork of Seven Psalms by Paul Simon, and from Public Orthodoxy, Wizards, Prophets, and the Archbishops and Bishops of the Christian Church by Christina Nellist. This is from the latter:

Since our governments, overall, have ignored the previous reports and urgent timeframe, it is reasonable for a theologian to ask, “Who will be in the 21^st-century ‘ark’?” The answer is likely to be two-fold. Firstly, there will be several “super arks,” with group fours on board, and perhaps some smaller versions with some group ones and twos on board. Secondly, group three will be left floundering and are likely to die of starvation due to food scarcity; or on their exodus from their lands that are underwater or parched dry; or in the civil unrest and war that will arise as societies break down into lawlessness and mass migration, as climate instability and food and water scarcity increasingly manifest, and they realize their foolishness for listening to those in group four. So, is that it? Is nothing to be done? As the IPCC suggests, there is a still a small window of opportunity available to us.

All four categories outlined above are to be found in the Christian church. Thankfully, most patriarchs have acknowledged the existential danger of climate change and instability, and most have spoken on its perils and of the need for Christians to lead more eco-theologically sustainable Christian lives. However, there remains a gap between what is taught at the top of our Christian churches and what is happening at parish level, and after decades and decades of prophetic Christian teachings, we must ask in earnest why this is so.

Listened to a podcast on sea trout fishing. 

Lots to do tomorrow,

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