Author Archives: Bert Hielema

October 21 2023 CHAOS CAUSES CHAOS, BECAUSE….. EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING ELSE. Chaos in US congress. Chaos in the world’s weather. Chaos in Ukraine. Chaos in the Middle East. Chaos in many families. Chaos in the most church denominations. … Continue reading →

October 14 2023 Poems are made by fools like me. But only God can make a tree.                                                                                  Anonymous Here is a foolish example: We live in times of deepest gloom,  With covid, wars and climate doom,  the future looks so dire … Continue reading →

October 7 2023. Do we need another ‘religious’ revolution? Some 3200 years ago, a mere 120 generations, the first God/Creator-monotheistic revolutionary religion was born, when God appeared to Moses in the burning bush. 600 years later, Zarathustra, on whom Nietzsche … Continue reading →

September 30 2023 WHERE IS GOD?  Some theological musings. “The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind”, says Psalm 115:16, yet, as Psalm 24 attests: The earth is the Lord and all that it contains. A contradiction? No. … Continue reading →

September 23 2023 COLLAPSE COMING We’ve just had the hottest summer on recorded history, with runaway wildfires in Canada and Hawaii, ruinous floods from Slovenia, Sudan and Hong Kong to Vermont and South Americaand Libya. We’ve seen nearly half of the world’s ocean waters in … Continue reading →

September 16 2023 Dreams  Your old men will dream dreams. Joel 2: 28. Count me among the old men. Count me among those who dream. Count me among those who see dreams as wrestling with oneself. Count me among those … Continue reading →