Weird animals
If you study animals, humans really are odd. Our bodies and instincts mesh with the natural world, but our conscious thought, logic, morality, and love are bizarre. PICTURE: alice-photo/iStockphoto It’s like something, or someone, dropped a conscious soul into our fleshly bodies. We have all sorts of weird theories to explain this – alien seeding, […]
Sight-Seeing: Salvation for the whole of creation
NILS VON KALM says we have short-changed the Gospel…
Essay: An unfathomable love
CHRIS GILBERT reflects on the meaning of Easter…
This Life: Connecting with God in creation
MATTHEW SMEAL, of Baptist World Aid Australia, writes that one of the best places to connect with God is in nature in this excerpt from Baptist World Aid Australia’s new devotional, ‘The Earth is the Lord’s!’…
This Life: Let’s celebrate the Earth every day
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at the importance of valuing creation every day…
In the US, National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins on why Christians must reconcile with science
RNS On top of his duties as the director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins takes time to answer letters from Christians trying to reconcile their faith with science. At a conference last week of BioLogos, the nonprofit he founded more than 10 years ago to bridge science and faith, Collins told an audience […]
ESSAY: THE AMISH LIVE SIMPLY, BUT DON’T CONFUSE THEM WITH ENVIRONMENTALISTS
In an article first published on The Conversation, DAVID MCCONNELL and MARILYN LOVELESS, of The College of Wooster in the US, look at the interaction between the Amish and the natural world…
GENESIS – A LOVE STORY
I love that the second story in Genesis is a love story. PICTURE: Element5 Digital/Unsplash Adam has been created but he is alone. No suitable partner can be found for him. God walks every animal past Adam, which he names (and I’m sure delights over), but none of them can complete him; not even man’s […]
GENESIS AND INFORMATION
If you haven’t read Genesis, you are missing out on a huge chunk of our cultural foundation. Why not take a look? God created the universe with words – information, coded data, says Paul Clark. PICTURE: Markus Spiske/Unsplash. One of the profound things the book of Genesis tells us, against all other accounts, is that God […]
US: CHRISTIAN CAMPS GET CREATIVE TO ATTRACT YOUTH IN TECH-DISTRACTED AGE
STEVE RABEY, writing for Religion News Services, looks at how Christian camps in the US are adapting to engage with young people…