When I think of God these days, I am drawn to what He designed for this planet Earth. I see a completely interdependent system of life on this Earth in which every single plant, animal, insect and person is needed to sustain life on this planet. Each and every one of us, including humans, has […]
“For the beauty of this Earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth, over and around us lies, Lord of all to thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise.”[1] If we live in the knowledge of how God gives a purpose to every plant and animal and […]
Baptism You lift off the helmet of knowing, gently drop it. You take off the armor of being right. Unbuckle the chain mail of good enough— lift it over your head, with a little awkward squirming to get it off, it’s so tight. You unbutton the coat of deserving, untie the padding of what people […]
Somehow this didn’t post on January 5th, 2026, so here it is! Writing about the Creation story means that there are unlimited topics to cover. Today, the topic is insects. “Oh, no!” I can just hear some of you readers groaning as you read this! And yet, each of the species of insects also has […]
As I’ve written about plants, animals, insects, and humans in community on our interdependent planet Earth, perhaps you can now see that the true nature of our planet Earth is a broad-based community. Everyone and everything thrives by helping each other provide everyone’s and everything’s needs for sustenance. If we didn’t have the plants and […]
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 […]