Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

November 25 2020 LOVE IT, OR ……………. This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.                                                                                                                                          Matthew 24: 14. The church … Continue reading →

MAKE HASTE SLOWLY This proverb appears in most languages: Latin, Vestina Lente; Greek, Speude Bradeoos; French, Hatez-vous lentement; German, Eile-sich langsam; English, Make haste slowly; Dutch, Haast u langzaam. We all are in the hurry. For what? I too, in … Continue reading →

ON DEATH, DYING AND LIVING. November 4 2020 Eighty years ago, in 1940, when I was twelve years old, I saw my first dead person: my maternal grandfather. He had lived all his life in Kornhorn, in the West Quarter … Continue reading →

October 20 2020 NEW TIMES, NEW FORMAT Imagine a school where teachers only lecture, where students cannot ask questions, where they are taught only from one book, where there never is any homework or tests, where the outside world is … Continue reading →

October 7 2020 A LETTER TO MY GRANDCHILDREN Dear grandchildren. You all live in cities. There’s where the jobs are. You all are successful, live healthy lives, have good jobs, happy families, beautiful children, loving parents: in a word, you … Continue reading →

THE VISIBLE CHURCH: ITS DECLINE AND DEMISE. When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8) Asking the question is answering it. Of our five children, four are church members, while one belongs to … Continue reading →