Ending the World
On apocalypse, ends, and the End I The Word in the Wild, Advent 1, Year B
In his collection of essays, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist, Paul Kingsnorth writes that he is giving up on all grand efforts to “save the planet” or more so to save civilization. Civilizations come and go and Kingsnorth points out that so often we confuse the end of the world with the end of o…