Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

September 16 2020 MERRY CHRISTMAS? Earth’s crammed with heaven,And every common bush afire with God,But only he who sees takes off his shoes;The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”  Elizabeth Barrett Browning   Merry Christmas in September? Three months from now? … Continue reading →

DOES THE CHURCH HAVE A FUTURE? September 2 2020 From my rural, old folks, perspective, I see the institutional church dying, Covid-19 accelerating the process. Of course, the invisible church will prevail, as outlined by the Apostles’ Creed: “I believe … Continue reading →

August 25 2020 COME HELL OR HIGH WATER…. Come what may, no matter how bad, whatever unnatural calamity occurs, we will not alter our way of life, because our mindset is frozen. If it takes Hell or High Water, Hell … Continue reading →

AUGUST 14 2020 TINA? TINA is the new-old-acronym. Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady of England, casted the expression when she proclaimed: “There Is No Alternative” (to the Capitalistic system.) And, yes, the terrible truth is that she was right: we … Continue reading →

 August 5 2020 Always plan for theworst case scenario Forty-five years ago – 1975 – our family moved to the municipality of Tweed, about midway Toronto-Ottawa, both some 200 km away, too far to walk. That was a time when … Continue reading →

July 25 2020 LOVE: IMPOSSIBLE? I have been thinking about LOVE lately. “All we need is LOVE”, the Beatles sang.  C. S. Lewis, in his “The Four Loves”, said that some people are glad the English language uses both the … Continue reading →