Just and Free. Fossil Free UMC.

Climate, Crisis and Numbers I am growing weary of the phrase’collective self-annihilation’spoken by folks in powerasserting a perspective that their actionsand their behaviors are‘ours.’ The royal ‘we.’ It is spoken in politeness,in proximity—complicitly—simultaneouslypolite enough not to call outor offend, but to pretendand get to join, as if ‘we’we really are buddiesenjoying the plunderextraction and colonialism

This reflection was written to be published in the upcoming MFSA newsletter. As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you,