I am slowly reading For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision For Creation Care by Steven Bouma-Prediger. Chapter 1 is "Where Are We? An Ecological Perception of Place." Here are some quotes: Despite our education we remain ecologically illiterate. Or perhaps more accurately, because of our education we remain ignorant of how the …
Month: September 2007
Strange Bedfellows?
This month's Geotimes magazine has a "science and faith" theme. I haven't seen the hard copy yet, but some of the articles are available online. One of the articles is called Strange Bedfellows? Evangelicals and Scientists Join Forces on Climate. It starts with: Global warming is melting permafrost around the world, but earlier this year …
Pope: Take Care of the Earth
News headline: Pope urges young to care for planet. Some quotes from the article: The planet risks irreversible decline from environmentally unsustainable development, Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday, urging young Catholics to take the lead in caring for the Earth and its precious resources. "We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a …
Where in the World? #1
I'm starting what I hope is a weekly "Where in the world?" series of posts. I'll have a view from Google Earth, and you try to figure out where it is. You can submit your answer with a comment, but don't peek at the comments until you have given it a good try. My only …
Weeping for the Jordan
The Jordan River, which begins near Mount Hermon on the Syria-Lebanon border and flows from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, is an endangered river. Most of its water is diverted for agricultural or domestic use; what remains is polluted by sewage and agricultural runoff. This is a political, as well as an …
Change of Name, Change of Location
The Earth is Not Flat! is moving, and is changing its name. The new name is The GeoChristian. The new location is geochristian.wordpress.com Here are some of the reasons: The name "GeoChristian" reflects who I am much more strongly than "The Earth is Not Flat!" did. I always had to explain what I meant by …
1st Day of Fall
September 1st, the first day of fall. The definition of autumn from Merriam-Webster: the season between summer and winter comprising in the northern hemisphere usually the months of September, October, and November or as reckoned astronomically extending from the September equinox to the December solstice I grew up with the astronomical definition for seasons--with equinoxes …
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