Today—Tuesday, June 2—we canceled the “From the Stacks” livestream I normally do every Tuesday at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Cornwall Alliance’s Facebook page. Why? Well, the official explanation went like this: “Dr. E. Calvin Beisner had an unfortunate battle with poison ivy during which the poison ivy won.” Various folks posted condolences and wished […]
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Isaiah 55 has for over forty years been one of my favorite passages of the Bible. Its literary beauty is one reason. The promise at its conclusion that through the Messiah’s redeeming work the effects of the curse will be reversed and ultimately removed is another: For you shall go out in joy and be
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Nearly fifty years ago, historian Lynn White, Jr., published in Science magazine an article that soon became famous, was reproduced hundreds of times in anthologies and course readings, and is still in use in college courses on environmental ethics, religion, and policy. In “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” White claimed, “By destroying pagan
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