Love Rights – Jan. 19, 2021
“If we can call what for us is nature, ‘God’s creation’, we have already invoked its immanent transcendence. We have then recognized the Creator’s right to what [God] has created. And in so doing, we have also acknowledged the rights of our fellow creatures themselves, rights which exist quite apart from their value for us. […]
The 3rd Commandment – Sep. 1, 2020
“To keep the Third Commandment (do not take YHVH, your God’s name in vain)… is to reclaim the name of YHVH–the concept of God and the nature of reality – as a force for justice and stewardship of the earth. It is to proclaim at every opportunity that the world we have been given is […]
Shafts of Glory – May 27, 2020
“You were not – or so it seemed – telling me that “Nature,” or “the beauties of Nature,” manifest the glory. No such abstraction as “Nature” comes into it. I was learning the far more secret doctrine that pleasures are shafts of the glory as it strikes our sensibility. As it impinges on our will […]
Did I Tell You? – May 21, 2020
“Did I tell you to find a part of nature that speaks to you. Then know it intimately and well. For some it is a mountain peak. For some as windswept beach. Find your own and in it find your restoration. Did I tell you to laugh, to dance, to sing. There is a lot […]
