Yesterday I had a piece posted as one of the “Guest Voices” in the Washington Post’s On Faith column. I thought it made some challenging points, so I’m surprised that it hasn’t prompted any responses yet on their site. Maybe the title, Religious Society of Friends of the Earth, turned people off?
I don’t see a lot of comments on any of their posts. It looks like they also require registration on comments, which usually slows down things. Maybe next time you can try writing about petulant rap stars or South Carolina politicians? Those topics seem to get people riled up!
It was a good piece. I first noticed it on QuakerQuaker before I got back to your blog. Congratulations on the column AND the book!
Agree with Martin that registration is a comment killer. Also, while acknowledging brokenness within the safe confines of Annual Sessions is challenging, confronting that brokenness on the site of the nation’s leading neo-con newspaper is even harder, registration aside. The message definitely resonates with me, including the urgency and the despair of "where do I start?", "what is my role?" and the challenge of taking inconvenient steps rather than juist the easy ones.
It is an excellent article – thank you for it. This is such a hard challenge. I know I almost always go with the convenient, due to the crazy pace of my life. I don’t know how I can even keep up the balls I have in the air, much less taker longer, planet-healthier ways around, without collapsing from exhaustion and we are not even materialistic people trying to keep up any kind of expensive lifestyle. Our vegetarianism is about our only saving grace in this area but I expect it is more than balanced out by the convenience tofu products, etc. that we consume. In many ways, we are the most mindful people I know very well locally in this regard – but that still puts us light years behind where we should be, and even behind where people are in more progressive communities. If I believed in hell, I’d say that I think I am going there for this, but it looks like what I am really doing is sending other people there right now. My complicity and the difficulty of fixing it stagger me.