Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

July 1 2023 I am worried. ‘Sinning against creation is sinning against God’.  An Iowa meteorologist is resigning from his television station because he developed post-traumatic stress disorder after threats over his climate change coverage.   Jeremiah 26 has a similar story. This … Continue reading →

June 24 2023 THE RUSH IS ON. From my student days a Greek saying pops up after 75 years: panta rhei, oude menei, which translates as ‘everything (panta), flows (rhei), nothing (oude), menei (remains the same). (The rivers Rhine and … Continue reading →

June 17 2023 SOCIETAL SUICIDE? The date, June 17, brings back many memories. On that day, 70 years ago, in Hamilton, Ontario, my fiancée, Diny Hilbers, and I were married. My wife died on October 23 2020. On our gravestone … Continue reading →

June 10 2023 THREE SOCIETAL FAILURES My Latin dictionary defines the verb deficio, as: to fail, or, to do less than one might. Our word ‘deficit’ finds its root there, a ‘failure’ to live up to expectations. Societal failure affects us all. The most … Continue reading →

June 3 2023 A bit about me. In 1975, after I sold business and home, our family moved from urban St. Catharines, On., to rural Tweed, halfway Toronto-Ottawa, where I had bought 50 acres, 20 hectares, mostly woodland.  My first … Continue reading →

May 27 2023 “God does not play dice with the universe”. Albert Einstein. Einstein believed there are laws governing the universe, including the planet we call our own. Yes, that great scientist, Einstein, believed that Creation was regulated by norms, founded … Continue reading →