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Oil Spills and God Talk, Part 2
By the time Christopher Lasch wrote, in The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics, "Neither [Left nor Right] wants to admit that our society has taken a wrong turn, lost its way, and needs to recover a sense of purpose and direction. Neither addresses the overriding issue of limits, so threatening to those who wish to appear optimistic at all times. The fact remains: the earth’s finite resources will not...."
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Oil Spills and God Talk, Part 1
A recent Rolling Stone article, highly critical of the Obama administration’s handling of the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil disaster concludes with a marine scientist’s assessment of Federal policy toward offshore oil drilling, "It was a bargain with the devil...and now the devil is gloating." There’s been a lot of vaguely religious language in the two....
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The Mutt & Me
Humanity is readily divisible into two groups: those who divide humanity into groups and those who don’t. The wise—even those among the dividers—learn to hold their tongue among the former. More than matters of taste, the position one takes in intractable arguments reveals something of one’s interior life. Realist or Nominalist, PC or Mac, Whitman or Dickinson—such disputations are endless, fascinating, and deeply....
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The Solidarity of Tears
Fatherhood made me a better pediatrician. I lost the dogmatism found in textbooks. I gained first-hand acquaintance with the anxious fear of parents whose child is suddenly ill or vulnerable. And I learned over and again the first, most important lesson of parenthood: you are not in control. Fatherhood also lent my advice needed....
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Nature, Alone
Scott Russell Sanders and Kathleen Dean Moore shared a stage at the recently concluded Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing. Essayists of considerable skill who share delight in and concern for Creation, the two graced their audience with an hour of wisdom and good words. Among their observations was one I hadn’t considered: profound encounters with the natural world are almost always related as individual, rather than....
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