Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement
I am wondering this. I am sure we all are. The answers won’t be in this blog post. But sometimes, to make sense of the present, we must look backward from the future…:
“You’ve asked me to tell you of The Great Turning, of how we saved the
world from disaster.
The answer is both simple and complex.
We turned.
Continue reading ‘Where From Here?’
I just received this sermon from one of our movement’s finest chaplains and co-founder of Religious Witness for the Earth, Reverend Fred Small. I wept when I read it.
The New Youth Climate Movement
A sermon by Rev. Fred Small
First Church Unitarian, Littleton, MA
November 11, 2007
“And now abide faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
So wrote Paul the Apostle to close the thirteenth chapter of his famed letter to the Christian community at Corinth. It’s still my favorite passage in the Bible, no matter no how many weddings I hear it at. Love is the most important thing, the one essential thing, the most powerful force, I believe, in the universe.
And that’s a good thing, because my faith and hope have been taking quite a beating lately. If faith demands confidence in the outcome and hope optimism, then global warming can really do a number on faith and hope.
Zo Tobi is currently serving the Youth Clean Energy Movement as the Northeast Organizer for the Sierra Student Coalition. Raised in New Hampshire by a working-class, Israeli-American father and a middle-class suburban Jewish mother from Massachusetts, Zo finished an undergraduate degree in International Development at Clark University in 2007. In his spare time, he is a Bikram Yoga enthusiast and performs as a progressive folk-rock songwriter in the New England college scene. He maintains some musings of potentially pursuing music full-time, attending Rabbinical school, or taking up a holistic health practice, after having attended to some of the converging catastrophies of the 21st century.
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