Celtic Christianity Today: Part #1 Homily Repent or the Time is Near by Rev. Dr. George Cairns
May 31, 2009
Bible Verses:
Mark 16:15
John 1-5
Ephesians 1: 3-4
Ephesians 1: 9-10
(Valparaiso, Indiana) - Rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, Indiana delivers a Sunday homily about the major evils of today genocide and ecocide entitled Repent or the Time is Near on May 31, 2009 at the Union Community Church in Valparaiso, Indiana.
In this two part homily video series, Rev. Cairns discusses the Cosmic Christ and a related story in The Lutheran magazine by Elaine Siemsen, the United Nations definition of genocide, the loss of language and other heritages in Indigenous peoples like the American Indian, Ecocide, the acclaimed ABC News Special Earth 2100 and how many experts believes the Earth and its inhabitants are facing the the Sixth Great Extinction of the world.
Cairns talks about the results of the American Museum of Natural History national survey on Ecocide that reveals a biodiversity crisis and is entitled Scientific Experts Believe we are in the Midst of Fasted Mass Extinction in Earth's History: Crisis Poses Major Threat to Human Survival; Public Unaware of Danger
With the statute of limitations up, Rev. Cairns confesses his childhood antics to prevent a highway construction project from ruining the woods in which he played - now an interstate freeway has vaporized those woods that meant so much to him while growing up.
The other homilies on Celtic Christianity take a look at several topics including the European roots of the Celts (primarily Scotland and Ireland) and how Earth-based cultures can impact the future of civilization including actively protecting the environment, respecting fellow humans, different cultures and nature.
Cairns works closely with Rev. Gregory Jones on several social fronts.
Rev. Jones is the pastor of the Union Community Church and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University.
Founded in 2007, The non-profit Turtle Island Project is known for its ongoing work with Native American issues and the other wing involves other Earth-based religions like the Celts. Dr. Cairns is the co-founder of the nonprofit Turtle Island Project.
Rev. Cairns continues to work closely with the foremost Celtic group in the world, the Iona Community in Scotland.
Celtic Christianity Today
http://www.celticchristianitytoday.org
youtube & bliptv:
http://celticchristianity.blip.tv
http://www.youtube.com/celticchristianity
Rev. George Cairns, Spirit Cafe blog, United Church of Christ
http://i.ucc.org/FeedYourSpirit/SpiritCafe/CafeBlog/tabid/83/Default.aspx
Iona Community, Scotland
http://www.iona.org.uk
http://www.isle-of-iona.com
Iona Community New World Foundation
http://www.iona-nwf.org/links.htm
Union Community Church, Valparaiso, IN
http://unioncommunitychurchucc.blogspot.com
Rev. Gregory Jones, Theology Department at Valparaiso University
http://www.valpo.edu/theology/faculty/gregoryjones.php
http://faculty.valpo.edu/gjones
The Lutheran Magazine: Who is the Cosmic Christ? By Elaine Siemsen
http://www.thelutheran.org/article/article_buy.cfm?article_id=2696
United Nations: genocide
http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_genoci.htm
http://www.hawaii-nation.org/genocide.html
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/GENOCIDE.ENCY.HTM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
Native American Genocide then and now:
http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/aiholocaust.html
http://www.nemasys.com/ghostwolf/Native/genocide.shtml
http://www.exiledmothers.com/babies_taken_for_adoption/native_american_babies...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/01/a-native-american...
Ecocide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocide
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0722-30.htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1574160052/bookrags
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/192-1064041-6761846?asin=0615138020&...
http://www.peace4turtleisland.org/pages/ecocide.htm
American Museum of Natural History survey on Ecocide:
http://www.well.com/~davidu/amnh.html
http://www.well.com/~davidu/extinction.html
http://www.well.com/
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/02/is-mass-species.html
ABC News Special Earth 2100
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Earth2100
The Sixth Great Extinction:
http://rewilding.org/thesixthgreatextinction.htm
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/issues/biodiversity/sixth.asp
http://www.well.com/user/davidu/sixthextinction.html
Turtle Island TV
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
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