What Pocahontas Found in Heaven
Most people these days know something about Pocahontas. Some even know the true story of her conversion to Christianity, and perhaps of the catechetical...
I Gave Up Too Soon!
Late last year we had some birch trees cut down in front of our house. The trunks were over a foot thick. I thought...
Does Anything Mean Anything?
Is meaning correspondence and signification—one thing in relation to something else?
"Meaningless! Meaningless! Everything is meaningless. What has been will be again, what has been...
Karl Barth on God’s Covenant with Earth
In his Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth (1886-1968) refers to God’s “everlasting covenant” with earth and its creatures a dozen times (CD I/2,...
Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior: A Novel. New York: HarperCollins, 2012. 437 pp.
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Barbara Kingsolver is a fine writer. One can learn a lot about writing...
America in Peril
I am seventy-eight years old, and I have never seen the United States in a more precarious or vulnerable position. And I am an...
2020 Is Here
Twenty-five years ago, some futurists foresaw a major global crisis arriving in about the year 2020.
In 1995 I published EarthCurrents: The Struggle for the...
Are Humans Special?
Are humans unique among all living things? Are we special?
The two extremes here are fairly obvious, I suppose:
Yes! Humans certainly are special; unique among...
Where’s the Gospel’s Missing Third?
The Bible reveals a whole and healing gospel. Good News!
Today however, a third of the gospel is missing from much evangelical preaching, teaching, and...
Gray Mountain: John Grisham’s Legal Justice Thriller
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. So will you. John Grisham’s novel Gray Mountain has everything and almost begs to be made into a movie.
Plot...
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