Rev. Jim Ball

I have a new friend. His name is Victor Mughogho from Malawi. Victor heads up an organization that helps his fellow Malawians climb out of poverty. My organization brought Victor to D.C. recently to speak at our Global Day of Prayer for Creation Care about what...

President Obama is in the midst of a speaking tour on energy, prodded in large measure by spiking gas prices and dropping approval ratings as many assume the President can do more, but isn't for some reason. The President is trying to convince folks that while he can't really do...

I hate to say this, but the man currently leading in the polls to become the Republican candidate for President of the United States, former Senator Rick Santorum, is woefully misinformed when it comes to global warming, one of the top challenges facing our country and the world. His own...

President Obama surprised many of us climate-action types during his recent State of the Union speech. He caught us off guard by actually uttering the words "climate change."

Here's what the President said: "The differences in this chamber may be too deep right...

The international climate talks that recently wrapped up in Durban, South Africa, could prove to be an historic turning point in the international community's efforts to overcome global warming. While the urgency for overcoming global warming has never been greater, it was actually helpful that expectations for this meeting were...

When Apple founder Steve Jobs died not long ago many news accounts, obits, and reflections -- the smart ones, the good ones -- drew upon his 2005 Commencement address at Stanford University. Some even included video clips or links to his full address. (See full text and video

Let's pretend that a new movie is being cast, one where the ignorant peasants have been whipped into a frenzy. These ignorant peasants, pitchforks and torches in hand, are storming the castle of a scientific genius to destroy his new invention that they don't understand and therefore scares them. And...

The next President, be it Barack Obama or the Republican nominee, will be judged by history primarily on whether or not they were able to have our country play its proper leadership role in overcoming global warming. That's because the next presidency will be the most important ever when it...

A recent NYT/CBS poll, taken after the debt deal, shows Congress at its highest disapproval on record -- at 82 percent. Ouch. As the Times story on the poll said:

"More than four out of five people surveyed said that the recent debt-ceiling debate was more about gaining...

We cannot see the truth without love. Discovering the truth is not a neutral enterprise. It requires a dedication that ultimately derives from love, a love of the truth, a passion for the truth. And the fount of all love is God's love. Without the love of God in our...

In a previous blog, "Camping Out at the Carnival of Climate Denial," I discussed how we seem to have come to a strange place as a society on climate change, where scientists have been telling us for over a decade how serious the problem is, and lately they've...

I've been seriously engaged with climate change since 1992, and it seems to me that as a society we've entered into a strange place concerning the truth about climate change. It's as if we entered a "fun house" at one of those traveling carnivals, where curved mirrors distort our bodies...