Carolyn Baker Defends LCWR

The impact of evolutionary nuns on shaping the next culture by Carolyn Baker

An instance of sticking with Team Woman? Far from being a threat to the Vatican, they are a threat to Catholic Christians and themselves if they are passing on heresy while engaged in their "good" works.

Those on the left may praise the LCWR because they are in agreement on what they consider to be important (and also because they are standing up to "patriarchy") but when it comes to questions about Christian dogma, they should mind their own business. But liberal busybodiness is a part of the post-Yankee mentality?

Two items via EB

Carolyn Baker refers to the film Good Food: "Good Food": A movement, not just a movie.





Would the Pacific Northwest be a better place to farm than California?

Matthew Wild reviews Peak of the Devil (blog).

Carolyn Baker on higher education

Carolyn Baker's Speaking Truth to Power has a new url?

"GRADUATING" FROM GRADUATING FROM COLLEGE: THE IVORY TOWER CRUMBLES (h/t to EB)

As industrial civilization continues its descent; as unemployment expands over the next decade, perhaps to the point where jobs as we have known them no longer exist; as Peak Oil dictates dramatic constrictions in local and long-distance travel; as larger systems crumble and communities are forced to come together to save their local places or face extinction; as food production becomes intensely local, and as everyone is forced to downsize every aspect of life, we need to stop preparing youth for a world that no longer exists and start preparing them for a new economy and a new culture built around local cooperation and earth stewardship as opposed to global competition and endless growth.

Young people, and in fact all who are able, need to learn practical, tangible skills for navigating a post-petroleum, post industrial world. While many college-age people are opting to learn farming and food production skills, those represent only a handful of skills that will be needed in the Long Emergency. Training in natural healing, emergency response and first aid, permaculture principles of design, teaching basic education in home school or ad hoc settings, operating small businesses that serve and are supported by the local economy, metal and woodworking, electrical wiring and repair, bee keeping, ham radio operating, manufacture of clothing and shoes, water purification and storage, fuel storage, firearms and self-defense skills-all of these skills will be desperately needed in the future.