Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

PONDERINGS ON A PARABLE. What is a parable? My dictionary defines it as a simple story used to illustrate a certain truth. Off and one for decades I have tried to make sense of the Parable of the Ten Virgins. … Continue reading →

MAGA: MAKE AMERICA GRIEVE AGAIN. Matthew 24 calling. Color me nervous. Even more than that: color me alarmed. Even more than that: color me frightened, afraid of Climate Change causing food shortages, afraid of nuclear wars, ending in our total … Continue reading →

THE OLD TIME RELIGION: still good enough? I just reread an interview with Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury from 2012-22, thus the former head of the Anglican Church. An erudite man, writer, poet: in short: a very polished … Continue reading →

THE OMINOUS THIRTY MINUTES OF SILENCE. On November 11 1918 history was made: the end of a murderous war, in which millions of young lives were callously killed in a dispute that had no other cause than stupidity and vainglory. … Continue reading →

HOW THEN SHALL WE LIVE?                        The perennial question. In detective stories, the principal character, the celebrated investigator who always, in the end, nails the culprit, often lets the reader know that there is no such thing as coincidence: every occurrence, … Continue reading →

CHRISTIANITY: SOME OBSERVATIONS . People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it. Amos 8: 12. There is a Latin saying, “Si vis … Continue reading →