Author Archives: Bert Hielema

In last week’s column I promised to provide some readings and other aids for a worshipful approach to a service aimed at a greater awareness to the climate catastrophe that awaits us. Thus this week’s blog comes in two sections. … Continue reading →

This week’s blog comes in two sections. May 12 2013-2 EAT FOOD. NOT TOO MUCH. MOSTLY PLANTS. That’s how Michael Pollan starts his book An Eater’s Manifesto. This past week I was seeding beets and carrots, drilling holes in the … Continue reading →

April 28 2013 THE GREAT CRASH. John Kenneth Galbraith, a Canadian by birth, Harvard professor of economics and an author of many books wrote The Great Crash 1929 in 1954, now almost 60 years ago. That Crash started The Great … Continue reading →

THE EARTH: OUR ULTIMATE TESTING GROUND Our entire life is one long test. From birth to death we are being examined. The subject of this life-long probing is precisely where we are: our physical earth. The experiment started with Adam. … Continue reading →

LESS FOR MORE COULD LEAD TO NOTHING FOR ALL When last week I announced my topic for the ensuing week, I had only a vague idea where I would go. I remember I was angry. Or perhaps that was not … Continue reading →