Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

March 11 2023 WILL THERE BE A CHURCH TOMORROW? We know about the Church today: fragile, divided, aging, pious perhaps. We also have Jesus’ words that the Church will endure until the end. And then there is Augustine proclaiming, “Many … Continue reading →

March 11 2023 WILL THERE BE A CHURCH TOMORROW? We know about the Church today: fragile, divided, aging, pious perhaps. We also have Jesus’ words that the Church will endure until the end. And then there is Augustine proclaiming, “Many … Continue reading →

March 4 2023  WHY ARE WE HERE?  Good question: why are we here on earth? Let me, from the outset, make plain, that, when we die – and we all will – there is no heaven to go to. John … Continue reading →

February 25 2023 AWAITING ‘THE DAY’. Frankly, I am completely captured by the prospect of eternity, that’s why I call myself an “Anthropos Teleios”, a human being always having the TELOS in mind, the very END of our civilization. Once … Continue reading →

February 18 2023 THE OLD TIME RELIGION: STILL GOOD ENOUGH? You may know that ‘old time religion’ song: Give me that old time religion,Give me that old time religion,Give me that old time religion,It’s good enough for me. It was … Continue reading →

February 11 2023  IMPOSSIBLE: YET….. Last Sunday I was the reader in our struggling Presbyterian Church, built 135 years ago, with 250+ pews. I counted the attendees: 25, mostly older folk! My reading concluded with Matthew 5: 20, “unless your righteousness … Continue reading →