Interesting dichotomy: living in the now but also living for the future. Not an easy transition to make as any Christian knows. The temptation to live in the now is nigh undeniable, but we can't just pretend that these things aren't happening. And we need to have a conversation about how we're going to avoid this in the future.
A bunch of links about the bushfires.
ABC News
Arson Is Not The Biggest Cause Of Australia's Fires
Are hazard reduction burns effective in managing bushfires? The answer is complicated
Climate Council
Explaining Bushfires and the link to Climate Change
Facebook posts
Jonathan Happold: Melanoma Country, a poem
Hazard Reduction of Backburn? A post by a fiery.
Sydney Morning Herald
This Is Not Normal: What's Different About The NSW Megafires - 2019-11-10
Experts Warn More Hazard Reduction Burns Are Not The Answer - 2020-01-07
A Seminal Moment In Climate Change Opinion - 2020-01-10
Sarah Wilson
Australians Are Angry At Scott Morrison And That's Okay - Jan 2020
Note: there's a temptation to defend Morrison simply because he claims to be a Christian. This is dangerous and short-sighted. Christians have done terrible things, in the name of power and in the name of God. They may not bear the punishment for sin for those things that they've done, thanks to grace, but those things were still not rightly done just because they were done by someone who has been saved by grace.
Also, this smacks of "defending Israel Folau because he agrees with conservative Christians on some points". No. Defend him for the matter of 'free speech' (and then bloody well acknowledge that he can say what he likes, but there may be consequences, even if he comes to it from a place of honesty).
Buzzfeed
A list of unverified and false information about the Australian bushfires 2020
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