Materialism, the accumulation of things and the richness of how we celebrate anything, has grown and grown as the most important ingredient in our lives here in the United States since the early 1980s. It used to be that the CEO’s of any company here lived in the same town as his workers; he knew […]

It’s hard to form a community with someone you are judging, you are afraid of or don’t trust, you don’t know anything about, you don’t agree with on basic issues, you don’t like, and probably many more reasons. As Jesus says in His Two Great Commandments (Matthew 22:36-40), “’Love the Lord your God with all […]

After God created mankind, Genesis 1:28-31 says: “ God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground. Then God said, ‘I give […]

I’ve been writing a lot about community being the nature of life in this world, in the life of animals and people. In reality, every creature depends on others of its kind for help and sustenance and safety and many other things, plus it has a purpose that it fulfills in our interdependent system on […]

We have now lived through eleven months of threats to our democracy, especially to those who are of lower income and to those who are immigrants and threatened to be thrown out of the U.S., even though they have contributed mightily to our economy. I think more and more these days that white men through […]