I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Galatians 1:6
"Presbyterian News Service reported
Friday that the hymn was prepared for the opening of the UN Climate
Change Conference on Sunday in Glasgow. Apparently the assembled
dignitaries, after working hard all day on strategies to compel the U.S.
and Western Europe to commit economic suicide and hand global financial
hegemony to China on a silver platter, will be in the mood to belt out a
rousing hymn about saving Gaia. The pious Presbyterians were happy to
oblige.
of
the conference participants will find familiar: “Immortal, Invisible,
God Only Wise,” an enduringly popular nineteenth-century hymn that
begins: “Immortal, invisible, God only wise, in light inaccessible, hid
from our eyes, most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,
almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise.”
Now, this is the twenty-first century, and all that patriarchal
business about a wise, omnipotent, glorious God is as dated as porkpie
hats and the notion that there are only two genders. “The Climate is
Changing,” which was written by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, co-pastor with
her husband, Bruce, of First Presbyterian Union Church in Oswego, New
York, is much more up-to-date.
“The Climate is Changing” is helpfully written to a tune that many
Maybe Gillette can give us “O Little Town of Climate Change” next, or
“What A Friend We Have In Gaia.” In the meantime, maybe if we sing
enough choruses of “The Climate is Changing” with sufficient heartfelt
sincerity, Gaia will turn away Her wrath and once again smile upon us
and accept our offerings." PJMedia
