Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

WHEN BAD NEWS IS GOOD NEWS. ’We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ Matthew 11: 17. Gladness and sadness typified the life of Jesus. His opponents called … Continue reading →

“THE OLD WORLD IS DYING.”  “The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci wrote, “and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” He wrote these words after World War I, which ended in 1918, now more … Continue reading →

WOE, WOE. ‘Woe! Woe to you, great city, you mighty city of Babylon! In one hour, your doom has come!’ Revelation 18: 10. “Woe”, is an old-fashioned word for ‘great stress’. Let me rephrase this Bible text: “Our commerce-dominated world, … Continue reading →

IT IS VERY GOOD. When God started creating, actually, when God started speaking, (Psalm 33: 9 simply states: “God spoke and it came to be), when God started doing the human impossible, started acting beyond our ken, started stopping, yet … Continue reading →

ON (MY) AGING Some personal observations.                                                                         There is that parable of the farmer who planted grain. Some of which fell on rocky ground, some on soil with little depth, and some on a fertile patch, with predictable results. Matthew 13 … Continue reading →

MARANATHA I am a forward-looking person. My favorite word/concept/prayer-word is MARANATHA. The word is derived from Aramaic, a language closely related to Hebrew, and is composed of “Maran” (our Lord) and “Atha” (come or has come). When I was still … Continue reading →