A recent news magazine includes a photo taken on Wall Street.[1] Amidst business men and women stands a person wearing a white mask. The person appears to be a woman. She holds up a sign. The sign says, “You have every reason to worry.” The message continues on another sign hung around her neck: “No end in sight.” In the heat of the economic meltdown, here was one person’s conclusion: “You have every reason to worry. No end in sight.” Read More »Don’t Worry
In a superb essay Andy Crouch explains why the current economic meltdown may be cause for hope. Here is one of his most thought-provoking paragraphs:… Read More »Addiction to Ease – Why Pain Brings Hope
My earliest memory of facing an environmental issue is from my 5th or 6th grade year. My mom had moved to Las Cruces, NM with my step-dad. Las Cruces was a thirty minute drive from El Paso, TX which sat across the Rio Grande from Juarez, Mexico. When I visited my mom (I was living with my dad elsewhere) we would often drive to El Paso. There were shops there which we didn’t have in Las Cruces. Each drive to El Paso took us past a large industrial factory on the outskirts of El Paso. The factory was located near the homes of thousands of the poor in Juarez, Mexico who lived in cinder block homes. From miles in any direction you could see thick colored smoke pouring out of the smoke stack of the factory. Day and night smoke spewed out of the factory.Read More »Taking the Environment Captive (Psalms)
I preached a lesson at Highland this morning on a Christian view of the environment. I was surprised at the many who said, “I’ve been… Read More »A Green Sunday