Sometimes we can get so into the thick of things that we miss the big picture. We get our priorities out of balance—family overwhelms church, or church family; work overwhelms fellowship, or fellowship work; nutritional precision overwhelms enjoyment of God’s good gifts of foods—or vice versa! With regard to Earth stewardship—fulfilling the mandate for godly dominion—it’s easy to get narrowly focused on either of two balancing tasks: subduing, ruling, tilling, and keeping the Earth (Genesis … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2013
Learning about God from Dark Lightning, Sprites, Blue Jets, Elves, Crawlers
Sometimes we just need to shut our mouths, stand back, and watch. I’ve been driven to that many times while watching storms—one 30 years ago rushing out of the north at my little house in north-central Michigan, one 25 years ago over the New Mexico desert with a train in the foreground and glowing red-rock cliffs beyond it, several in the 1980s and early 1990s closing in on my little house in northwest Arkansas perilously close to Tornado Alley, many in the 1990s bearing down on my old house … [Read more...]
The Real Root, and the Real Cure, of Eco-Fears
If there’s anything that almost universally describes today’s environmental movement, it’s fear: fear of global warming, fear of sea-level rise, fear of rapid species extinction, fear of dead zones in the oceans, fear of topsoil erosion, fear of running out of oil, fear of finding and burning too much oil (or coal or natural gas), fear of nuclear waste, fear of deforestation, fear of overpopulation—the list could go on and on. The common denominator is fear. Yet the most common command in the … [Read more...]