Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

October 9 2017 FAST FALLS THE EVENTIDE. You may recognize this as a line from ABIDE WITH ME, the song made famous by the TITANIC disaster more than 100 years ago. The greatest danger in most of our Western world … Continue reading →

October 1 2016 EXPECT TREE-MENDOUS TRAGEDIES Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree. Joyce Kilmer. I too can be a fool and make a little tree poem such as: While only God can … Continue reading →

September 25 2016 What makes me tick? I am not referring to my ticker, my heart. When I am writing this my pulse rate is a shade below 60, and my blood pressure – recently checked at the Tweed Clinic- … Continue reading →

September 18 2016 THE DARKNESS DEEPENS Last week I felt down, ready to throw up my hands and say: “the heck with it all: what’s the use. Why not turn on the television, read a trashy novel and give up … Continue reading →

September 11 2016 WHAT IS JESUS DOING IN A NATION THAT CALLS ITSELF CHRISTIAN? In a general sense America is a Christian country just as Saudi Arabia is an Islam nation and Israel a Jewish state. Yet, being a Christian … Continue reading →

Zwinglius Redivivus flagellum dei The Riddle of Life Eerdmans has just published a volume first appearing in Dutch back in 1940 (and they’ve sent a review copy) that I can only describe with one word: beautiful. The blurb runs thusly: … Continue reading →