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“We don’t have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It's life or death. "  -  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You could assume that this will be another text about climate change where you will learn facts and I will discuss how terrible everything you do is. But no, I just want to show of the reality.  It is really tough to change our whole living into a climate neutral way and, as some could say, "live poorly" after everything we own and have. For the past few years, the globe has been constantly changing. From Paris to Stockholm, we may go by plane in two hours for even less than 50 euros. By train, it would take us an additional 20 hours. We can request a 15-minute delivery if we neglected to buy milk. And with the aid of Amazon Prime,  items from all over the world can arrive the following day.  By doing so, we are able to select the finest from 1,000 aircraft businesses, 20 variet...

For the authors of the Gospels (however much did they disagree with each other) and the early Christian communities (however different they were), the shared meal was at the centre. The major change happened in the understanding of the nature of God and his presence - God moved (to overgeneralize) from the temple setting to the setting of a common meal. As we read from the Gospels and NT scholars, Jesus himself saw the importance of meals together and praying together with his disciples. And the breaking of bread was the most intuitive ritual to express the simplicity of God and communion. The author of the 4th Gospel writes: Jesus says to eat the flesh and drink the blood of a "Son of Man"(a Semitic phrase meaning human, person, man), probably meaning to accept and take him as a person, accept God through him as a normal human being. Our ancestors ate manna from heaven (a miraculous act of God, who still maintains the distance between him and humanity) and died. But through ...