Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

JANUARY 19 2019 RAPTURE EQUALS RAPE EQUALS DEATH. The Latin verb RAPIO (I seize), RAPUI (I have seized), RAPTUM (been seized), also means “to snatch and tear away.” It clearly shows that RAPE and RAPTURE have a common root. We … Continue reading →

January 12 2019 SILENCE IN THE FACE OF EVIL IS ITSELF EVIL Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. …By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. – William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene … Continue reading →

January 5 2019 BROTHER, ARE YOU BORN AGAIN? “Brother, are you born again?” I have been asked that question a number of times. Not in the Dutch religious community where I had been active for many decades, but doing appraisals … Continue reading →

DECEMBER 29 2018 THE FINAL REFORMATION. I seriously wanted to write an up-beat piece. So I sat down and tried to conjure something positive. Hey, I thought, perhaps what I wrote last year at the end of 2017 might help … Continue reading →

DECEMBER 22 2018 IS THERE A HELL? NO. WILL THERE BE HELL? YES. All requiems start with DIES IRAE (pronounced dee-es ee-ray) the entire text in church Latin. I have five or six CDs of different Requiems, my two favorites … Continue reading →

DECEMBER 15 2018 LEARN TO LIVE ETERNALLY My mother once told me that when she expected me she prayed that I would become a minister of the gospel, a preacher, in other words. Fourteen years later I was sent to … Continue reading →