by Don Gordon | Aug 22, 2022 | Opinion
God set forth a difficult task for the Hebrew people in Jeremiah 29:5-7: “Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters … seek the welfare of the city” (NRSV). Why is this a challenging and extraordinary...
by Scott Stearman | Aug 8, 2022 | Opinion
Poet Mary Oliver ends her poem “Daisies” remarking about the “suitability of the field for the daisies and the daisies for the field.” She rightly sees, and celebrates, a kind of symbiotic relationship between the wildflowers and the fields in which they grow. For...
by Libby Carroll | Jul 27, 2022 | News
“Listen to the voice of creation,” Pope Francis urges in his message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, published from Rome on July 16, 2022. His entreaty provides both a theme and an invitation for the Catholic Season of Creation, an ecumenical...
by Mitch Randall | Jul 21, 2022 | Opinion
A summer heatwave across Europe elevated temperatures to heights never seen before, leaving citizens overheated, infrastructure damaged and wildfires burning out of control. Paris reached 40.5 degrees Celsius or 104.9 degrees Fahrenheit. The United Kingdom hit a...
by Don Gordon | Jul 8, 2022 | Opinion
The Supreme Court of the United States decided against the EPA in West Virginia v. The Environmental Protection Agency on June 30, 2022. At issue was the EPA’s ability to regulate and set stricter standards on fossil fuel-emitting industrial plants without...
