Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

September 2012 Was that “The Global Swan Song?” I don’t like mega churches, but I loved it when 400 million people world-wide heard an old-fashioned sermon at the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics. It happened at the end of … Continue reading →

Does the church still remember “semper reformanda?” On a hotter than usual day for early June I was running on the Bruce trail in a cool tunnel of green growth. Tiny sun-spots made the dark path resemble a star-studded sky. … Continue reading →

April 2012 Collapse Collapse happens all the time. Come to think of it, the Bible starts with collapse right in the Garden of Eden, when the good life there suddenly turned sour. Both the Flood and the Tower of Babel … Continue reading →

March 2012 “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”  – Albert Einstein It is said that when a frog is deposited in a boiling … Continue reading →

February 2012. Our world today “The old is dying and the new cannot be born: in the interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms will appear.” Antonio Gramsci, Marxist thinker “I will make everything new.” Jesus Christ, the beginning and … Continue reading →