Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

December 20 2015 ARE WE ABLE TO MANAGE THE EARTH? The world is old, very old. The most prolific species on earth were and still are trees. In early days these trees gave the earth perfect health in the form … Continue reading →

December 13 2015 Is there still a Christian Life Style? Many a moon ago Francis Schaeffer wrote a book entitled “How then shall we live?” concentrating on Bible reading and prayer, not unlike the way the orthodox Jews and the … Continue reading →

December 6 2015 ARE WE READY FOR A PANDEMIC? A super El Niño is on the way. El Niño is Spanish for the child. It is the name climate scientists have given the occasional periods of Pacific Ocean warming that … Continue reading →

November 29 2015 COP 21: A COP-OUT? Tomorrow the much anticipated conference – COP 21- on Climate Change starts in Paris, the scene of these brutal attacks on innocent people a few weeks ago. Of course the word ‘innocent’ is … Continue reading →

NOVEMBER 22 2015 PRAY FOR PARIS? PRIEZ POUR PARIS? There is a certain saying in Latin which today could refer to prayer: Deus ex Machina. It literally means “God out of the machine”. It comes from ancient drama where sometimes … Continue reading →

NOVEMBER 15 2015 THE FUTURE OF WORK The late Sheikh Rashid Bin Saed Al Maktoum, longtime Emir of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, once said: “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I … Continue reading →