Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

January 9 2024 Has my disciplined life made me guilty of manslaughter? The Bible is big on discipline: the word appears 124 times there, most often as a reminder that the Lord ‘disciplines’ a person who swerves away from his … Continue reading →

January 1, 2024 2024+: THE YEARS AHEAD. The Economist, a British weekly, still thriving since 1843, publishes each yearend, a 90 pages projection of the following year. Where they need 90 pages, I will do in less than 900 words, … Continue reading →

December 26, 2023 WHAT’S IN A NAME? “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.”  William Shakespeare uses this line in his play Romeo and Juliet to convey that the naming of … Continue reading →

December 18 2023 NATURE AND MIRACLE. I have a Dutch book, called Natuur en Wonder, written by Dr. J. H. Diemer, who died in a German Concentration Camp in 1945, being arrested for his anti-Nazi work during the 1940-45 German occupation … Continue reading →

Monday December 11 2024  More random sayings (3), perhaps better described as  “incoherent utterances.” More aphorisms next week.

A NEW COP SONG and SOME MORE RANDOM THOUGHTS (2) I am an old-fashioned guy, with new-fangled ideas, especially about the church. To me, monologues, also known as sermons, are passive experiences, with mainly the hearing engaged, easily distracted, while multi-note expression, … Continue reading →