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Nov 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Cesar Gaviria |Patti Harris |Mark Wilson |Robert Hunziker
by César Gaviria and Patti HarrisBOGOTÁ – The ocean is our greatest natural resource. It provides half the planet’s oxygen, helps to feed half the world’s people, and, as the world’s largest carbon sink, is one of our best defenses against climate change. But it is under attack like never before. Sea surface temperatures are hotter than ever, which is killing marine life and fueling stronger hurricanes. Many big-fish populations have been decimated.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
helenair.com | Mark Wilson
For the last 12 years, nearly every Saturday edition of the Helena Independent Record featured a religion column contributed by one of our many local pastors, priests, ministers, clergy members, theology teachers or leaders of local faith-based organizations. These articles have covered a wide range of religious issues, events and matters of interest to both the authors and members of the Helena community.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Thomas Klikauer |Tom Murphy |Mark Wilson |Vikas Meshram
Among the massive “entertainment industry” and what German philosopher Adorno once called a “culture of mass-deception”, corporate mass media occasionally provides – largely for legitimacy reason – a slight glimmer into the comforting lies of corporate anti-environmentalism.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Subhash Gatade |Tom Murphy |Mark Wilson |Justice Bhambhani
Judicial delays and Multiple Re-hearings of bail applications of ‘equal citizenship’ activists violate fundamental rights to liberty and speedy justice 15th August, 2024: As we mark our 78th Independence Day, NAJAR expresses deep concern about the inordinate judicial delays in the bail applications of those accused in FIR 5G/20 (Delhi Police Special Cell), where multiple students, activists and local Muslim residents from North-East Delhi have been charged under the draconian Unlawful...
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Tom Murphy |Mark Wilson |Vikas Meshram |Joshua Frank
This is the thirteenth of 18 installments in the Metastatic Modernity video series (see launch announcement), putting the meta-crisis in perspective as a cancerous disease afflicting humanity and the greater community of life on Earth. This episode unpacks the great Wes Jackson aphorism that modern humans are a species out of context. Well, what’s the right context, and how are we out of it?
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May 11, 2024 | 
helenair.com | Mark Wilson
In Mark 10:17, a wealthy man asks Jesus an important question: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”All of us should want to know how Jesus answers that question. It’s similar to the question the Philippian jailer poses ("Sirs, what must I do to be saved?") to Paul and Silas after they were freed from unjust imprisonment by an apparently miraculous earthquake (Acts 16:30).
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May 4, 2024 | 
helenair.com | Mark Wilson
Would you be surprised to learn that none of the characters mentioned in the Bible are white? Nobody, including Adam, Abraham, Moses, Deborah, David, Elijah, Jezebel, Daniel, Jesus, Peter, Paul, or even Lydia or the folks in the church in Rome were white. Most of the people in the Bible were Jews of Middle Eastern origin. A few people in the Bible from the region we now call Europe may have had light-colored skin and might be considered white today, but they weren’t in their day.
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Feb 17, 2024 | 
helenair.com | Mark Wilson
Most Christians don’t believe what Jesus has said: “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.”For centuries, Christians believed their eternal inheritance would involve a future renewal of the earth (and all of creation), forever set free from corruption and death (Matt. 25:34). Resurrected, physical human bodies reanimated by the Holy Spirit will become suitable for eternal life with Jesus on a newly perfected earth, as God himself comes to dwell with us (Rev. 21: 1-5).
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Nov 18, 2023 | 
helenair.com | Mark Wilson
The renowned Swiss theologian Karl Barth famously advised preaching with “the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.”What he meant was that preaching should be made relevant to the issues and situations people commonly experience rather than expounding upon matters that only pertained to ancient Israelites or first-century Christians. Whether that is still good advice in the 21st century is the subject of the remainder of this column.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
helenair.com | Mark Wilson
Russell Moore, editor in chief of Christianity Today, is an evangelical Christian theologian and minister. He previously served as president of the Southern Baptists Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission until he resigned after finding himself at odds with other top evangelical leaders – for criticizing Donald Trump, condemning a sexual abuse scandal in the church, and calling out white nationalism within the institution.
