Category Archives: Our World Today

December 22 2013 Looking back and looking ahead I always have a few books on the go, especially now when I am preparing for a series on How Should We Then Live? Fortunately I don’t have to go to the … Continue reading →

DECEMBER 15 2013 THE GAME IS OVER. CARPE DIEM. Last week I saw a picture, taken in the Arctic on December 3, showing methane rising from the Arctic Ocean and entering the air we all share, the methane count reaching … Continue reading →

December 8 2013 THE AGE OF DENIAL Just after I had decided to write a series on “How then shall we live?” trying to combine the Creation Word with the Written Word I went to the local library where a … Continue reading →

Money is our God. The structure of Capitalism is religious, according to a growing number of independent thinkers. It is the worship of ‘debt’. An article appearing in the (Dutch) De Groene Amsterdammer, written by Frank Mulder. Part 2 How … Continue reading →

RELIGION FOR DUMMIES The Christian Right and Obama. R.J. Rushdoony was a Presbyterian preacher, who claimed that he based his beliefs on the teachings of Calvin and Dooyeweerd  No wonder Calvinism does not have a good name nowadays because one … Continue reading →

September 22 2013 FUKUSHIMA : A fuku-shame    Nuclear power was supposed to free us forever from fossil fuels: “too cheap to metre” was the dream. It reminds me of Dick Cheney and his deputy who sold the Iraq war … Continue reading →