The Narrative Image

Back in October of last year, I mentioned Brian McLaren’s book, EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE in my post about 82nd Avenue and the Apocalypse. (see: http://thenarrativeimage.blogspot.com/2007/10/82nd-avenue-and-apocalypse.html ) It’s funny how things work out, but it looks like I’ve been given a venue in which to share some of the ideas set forth in that book. It’ll be at my church during its Fall education promotion – something called Resurrection Alive! It takes place during the next four Sunday evenings. The details, as they are printed in the official church brochure go like this: “RESURRECTION ALIVE!” Fall 2008 Opportunities November 2, 9, 16, & 23 5:45pm Dinner is Served! (donation appreciated) 6:30pm – 7:30pm Learning Opportunities for all ages Classes for High School and Adults: “Change” facilitated by Scott “Whenever we belong to a group, from a family to a church to a fan club to a political party to a nation, we are under that influence of that group’s fram...

An Associated Press article by Brian Skoloff indicates that thirty-six states will “face water shortages” in just five years from now. The reasons for these shortages are listed as a combination of, “…rising temperatures, drought, population growth, urban sprawl, waste and excess.” Autumn leaf at light-rail construction site Bruce Lieberman of the Union-Tribune writes that we are in the process of changing the chemistry of the oceans (they become more acidic as they absorb carbon dioxide) threatening the viability of plankton, the bottom of the food chain. Remember when dying oceans used to be a science fiction premise? Back in 1973, the movie Soylent Green depicted an overpopulated world that depletes its ocean resources by 2022 and is forced to resort to an interesting food-source alternative. Brian McLaren, in his new book Everything Must Change suggests a metaphor for what we humans are doing to the world. He writes, “When the social, political, and economic machinery of a societ...