by Guy Sayles | Apr 22, 2015 | Opinion
The “Book of Common Prayer” includes a grateful and humble acknowledgment of “this fragile earth, our island home.” It’s a moving phrase; and, on this Earth Day, I pray that we will love this fragile earth with courageous and tender love,...
by Larry Eubanks | Mar 30, 2015 | Opinion
At each stage of creation in Genesis 1, God likes what he has created. He declares that the world is good. When it’s all done, he declares that the creation is very good. And then something goes very wrong. First, the humans decide that they don’t want to...
by Elizabeth Evans Hagan | Mar 18, 2015 | Opinion
Genesis 1-2 reveals two important truths about humanity: We are created in the image of God, and we are to be caretakers of the earth. God cared for all things in creation, and humanity is given a similar role. We are to occupy the earth, to multiply our human race...
by Ron Rolheiser | Feb 25, 2015 | Opinion
Numerous groups and individuals today are challenging us in regard to our relationship to mother earth, urging us to be less blind, less unthinking and less reckless in terms of how we relate to the earth. Every day our newscasts point out how, without much in the way...
by Chuck Summers | Feb 20, 2015 | Opinion
Joan Chittister’s “The Monastery of the Heart” provides much wisdom about our need to care for and preserve creation. Her reflections in a chapter called “Co-Creation” are particularly insightful and needed in a world that too often sees...
