New heavens, new earth

Prof NT Wright on Romans 8, 18-25

Towards a Christian theology of the stewardship of creation. 

Tom doesn't quite go all the way here but he uncovers the path.

Very helpful

http://operationnoah.org/resources/bible-study-creation-renewed-patient-hope/

New words needed

George Monbiot's glossary for the environmental debate

Be careful with your language

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/forget-the-environment-new-words-lifes-wonders-language

The precariat - A follow up

More from Great Transition

What or who exactly is the precariat? 

Is it just a "North" or a "Middle class" thing?

Answer: No

https://greattransition.org/roundtable/precariat-author-response

Another Advent Litany

A threefold, trinitarian form of response from the Sisters of the Church

Useful. I used some of these responses on Advent Sunday 2018

http://sistersofthechurch.org/poetry-prayers/litany-for-advent

Advent Litany - O Antiphons

A shorter form of O Antiphon responses from Dave Beswick

Useful for services in Advent

https://re-worship.blogspot.com/2011/11/advent-litany.html?m=1

A Litany. Prayer for Advent

Fransiscan. O Antiphon responses.

Get to know your O Antiphons

Remember 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel'?

https://datinggod.org/2011/12/02/a-litany-and-prayer-for-advent/

So far so good. Ursula Le Guin

Poetry review

Ursula Le Guin is always worth our attention. 

'So far, so good' is her last book 

Excellent review

http://portlandreview.org/review-of-so-far-so-good-ursula-k-le-guins-lasting-meditative-landscape/

Words of caution from Jesus himself

Cleaning the house is not sufficient in itself. 

You need to choose your new tenant wisely.

Swept out the house? 

Nice and clean and tidy? 

Spick and span? 

Empty? 

Mmm. 

Better watch out

(Wasn't that in Ghost-busters?)

http://blog.adw.org/2015/03/how-can-a-demon-driven-out-return-with-seven-more-a-meditation-on-a-puzzling-parable-of-jesus/

Be careful

Sage advice from F Nietzsche on exorcising your demons. 

Discernment required.

Nietzche?

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33044-be-careful-lest-in-casting-out-your-demon-you-exorcise

It's that time of the year

Exorcising your demons

Sort of a bit iffy perhaps but has a valid central point: we all have our own personal demons

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6887904

Landscapism blog

Interesting stuff here on the history of the Welsh borderlands - or should that be English borderlands

https://landscapism.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-topographical-legacy-of-medieval.html?spref=tw&m=1

The Precariat - time to fly

Social and economic transformation needed

Essay

https://greattransition.org/publication/precariat-transformative-class