morepraxis

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In early June, the Brazilian Congress amended and approved a bill, originally introduced to grant land title rights to 300,000 properties that have been established illegally across approximately 67 million hectares of public land in the Amazon. The rules set by the Provisional Measure (MP) number 458, will add pressure to the Amazon and make [...]

We noted its beginning, so it seems appropriate to note its end… the last of the fires that started burning on February 7 is finally out.
The landscape and the psyche of the state is still scarred. It’s all very raw still, and it will be for a very long time.

we endure the darkness
for what it makes possible:
the seeing of the stars
the coming of the dawn
sleep.
but we don’t always have to see
and we don’t always have to know.
sometimes the darkness is good
just for being itself
so if you would like
and if you can
let it be dark.
crawl into it
let it wrap you
let it hold you
let it be [...]

I loved these last two paragraphs from Mark Vernon’s review of Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

“There are no guarantees that such a transfigured future will even be born,” is how Eagleton ends.
But, you know, there is an optimism that lurks in the dark heart of pessimism. For pessimism is [...]

Random thoughts in the absence of cohesion

I don’t read many church blogs, but it seems there’s a bit of a theme going around that people are stopping blogging for a while, and becoming a little jaded with social networking. Someone asked whether the sporadic posting here meant i was stopping blogging. I have no plans [...]

[you'll have to imagine there's a solstice image here (bloody wordpress)]
I can’t wait for the solstice.
We’re doing a space in the basement – something completely different to what we’ve done before. It’s not alt worship, hopefully it will be some kind of sacred space, though i think those who want to bring christian interpretations into [...]

I’ve a few posts waiting to be put up, but they have images attached, and wordpress seems to have stopped offering me the option of doing that…
In the interim, I’ve been reading about vengeance, and came across this article this week from Monitor on Psychology. One of the most human instinctive responses to crime is [...]

Today Jas, Nikki and I ventured down to State Youth Games for the day.Take a look at the SYG album for photos.