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Creation Care: “A Crossroads for Humanity”

And God said, “Let us make a human being in our image, by our likeness, to hold sway over the fish of the sea and the fowl of the heavens and the cattle and the wild beasts and all the crawling things that crawl upon the earth And God created the human in his image,Continue reading “Creation Care: “A Crossroads for Humanity””

T.S. Eliot: …the dead tree gives no shelter

2020 has pretty much been a wasteland — uncharted territory marked everywhere with signs of death and the potential for despair. When T.S. Eliot wrote “The Wasteland” (edited by his friend Ezra Pound) 100 years ago in the early 1920s, Europe was such a place — lying in waste, devastated by the horrors and destructionContinue reading “T.S. Eliot: …the dead tree gives no shelter”

Sometimes I bite off a bit more than I can chew!

Have you had a Covid-19 project? Like many others, my project has been my back yard. Last year I had a unused corner of my yard that was in some significant shadow, so I planted some Hostas. Just two little beds, tucked away in the corner. This year I looked at those beds and saidContinue reading “Sometimes I bite off a bit more than I can chew!”

Justice without Jesus?

Justice without Jesus? We have people who have made justice their God, yet another instance of the litany of humanity’s idol worship. We have people defining justice as they see fit rather than wrestling with what Biblical justice is. And, in the end, we have people abandoning Christ. • Michael O. Emerson • • •Continue reading “Justice without Jesus?”

The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: September 12, 2020

• • • The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: September 12, 2020 • • Update on the wildfires in the west… From the NY Times: Fires continued to rage in southern Oregon, where hundreds of homes have been razed, as well as east of Salem, where two bodies have been found, and along the state’s coast.Continue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: September 12, 2020”

Reconsider Jesus – The Temptation (Mark 1:12-13)

Reconsider Jesus – A fresh look at Jesus from the Gospel of Mark A devotional commentary by Michael Spencer Compiled and Edited by: Michael Bell Table of Contents The Temptation 12 Immediately the Spirit impelled Him to go out into the wilderness. 13 And He was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan;Continue reading “Reconsider Jesus – The Temptation (Mark 1:12-13)”

Francis Collins Responds to COVID Vaccine Skeptic

Francis Collins Responds to COVID Vaccine Skeptic Michael Zimmerman, the Founder and Executive Director of the The Clergy Letter Project, has written an article titled, “Why I’ll not be Taking a Covid-19 Vaccine — and I’m a Scientist.” The Clergy Letter Project is an organization that was founded to show that numerous clergy from aContinue reading “Francis Collins Responds to COVID Vaccine Skeptic”

Wednesday with Michael Spencer: A Theology of Everything

Wednesday with Michael Spencer A Theology of Everything (2004) This is a story that happened where I work, so I need to tell you some things before we can go on. Our school has thirty minutes of chapel scheduled into every school day. It’s been like that for one hundred and six years, and nothingContinue reading “Wednesday with Michael Spencer: A Theology of Everything”

Mary Oliver: Morning Poem

Morning Poem by Mary Oliver Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun the heaped ashes of the night turn into leaves again and fasten themselves to the high branches — and the ponds appear like black cloth on which are painted islands of summer lilies. If it is yourContinue reading “Mary Oliver: Morning Poem”

Covid-19 – Understanding R

I was thinking about this so much yesterday, that I knew I had to write it up for today’s post. (We will return in Michael Spencer’s book – Reconsider Jesus – on Friday.) This graph in a nutshell is what the experience of my home province of Ontario has been with Covid-19. You can clickContinue reading “Covid-19 – Understanding R”