Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

August 31 2022 CLOSE TO COLLAPSE? “It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all, and comes to us … Continue reading →

August 24 2022 ABOLISH THE CLERGY? A few years ago, on a 10km run, I caught up with another runner and we talked, while enjoying the scenery in the Madoc area. He was a retired head of the Newfoundland Constabulary … Continue reading →

August 17 2022 TRIPLE HOLY: THE HOLY EARTH; LE MILIEU DIVIN; SACRED NATURE. The Lord’s Prayer starts with “Hallowed be thy name”. In today’s language it translates as “Your name be holy”: using the subjunctive gives it more power.  However, … Continue reading →

August 10 2022 THE GREAT TABOO. Why am I, why are you, why are we all here on this small ball floating in eternity, with no other life detected anywhere else? Is there a purpose for us in being born, … Continue reading →

August 3 2022  SOMETHING NEW. “What has been will be again,what has been done will be done again;there is nothing new under the sun.                           (Ecclesiastes 1:9,10) Well: there IS something new under the sun, in spite of what Ecclesiastes, that blunt … Continue reading →

July 27 2022 THE FOUR HORSEMEN. Or should I write: the Four Horsepersons? Or the Four Equestrians? Let me stick with the male denomination, and warn you that they are out there in whatever form. It is the popular notion … Continue reading →