What Is The Human Place In Creation? Does Replacing Fossil Fuels With Renewables Solve The "Problem" of Humans?

Hurrah! Shayna is back, and gets to have a say about the recently enacted climate strike, while Chris asks questions about the place of human beings on the planet: where do we fit?

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Here are timecodes to help you navigate through today’s show:

01:00     As What In God’s Name listenership increases, Shayna and Chris re-set the show’s premise and briefly introduce themselves.

04:28     Shayna and Chris spend a moment on the announcement that the House of Representatives will begin a formal impeachment process. A What In God’s Name question is: what is the relationship of politics and ethics? What happens when political considerations take precedence over ethical or moral considerations? 

07:00     Is the rhetoric of “emergency” appropriate for the climate issues we face? How does that rhetoric help, and how is it unhelpful?

10:20     Some people feel that the fate of the world is entirely in human hands (since, from that view, there is no divine realm); some feel that the fate of the world is entirely in divine hands (since, from that view, God is omnipotent and omniscient). What is a possible “middle” theology? 

14:30     How is a relationship with the living God similar to a relationship with a living person?

16:24     What is the human place in Creation? Where do we fit, in relation to the rocks, trees and squirrels? Does replacing fossil fuels with renewables take care of the "problem" of human beings?