Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

ON DEATH, DYING AND LIVING. November 4 2020 Eighty years ago, in 1940, when I was twelve years old, I saw my first dead person: my maternal grandfather. He had lived all his life in Kornhorn, in the West Quarter … Continue reading →

October 20 2020 NEW TIMES, NEW FORMAT Imagine a school where teachers only lecture, where students cannot ask questions, where they are taught only from one book, where there never is any homework or tests, where the outside world is … Continue reading →

October 7 2020 A LETTER TO MY GRANDCHILDREN Dear grandchildren. You all live in cities. There’s where the jobs are. You all are successful, live healthy lives, have good jobs, happy families, beautiful children, loving parents: in a word, you … Continue reading →

THE VISIBLE CHURCH: ITS DECLINE AND DEMISE. When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8) Asking the question is answering it. Of our five children, four are church members, while one belongs to … Continue reading →

September 16 2020 MERRY CHRISTMAS? Earth’s crammed with heaven,And every common bush afire with God,But only he who sees takes off his shoes;The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”  Elizabeth Barrett Browning   Merry Christmas in September? Three months from now? … Continue reading →

DOES THE CHURCH HAVE A FUTURE? September 2 2020 From my rural, old folks, perspective, I see the institutional church dying, Covid-19 accelerating the process. Of course, the invisible church will prevail, as outlined by the Apostles’ Creed: “I believe … Continue reading →