A couple weeks ago the national news drew our attention to a sleeping giant we are often able to ignore. When the Coal-Ash dam in Tennessee collapsed last week, it destroyed multiple homes, triggered an environmental catastrophe so severe it will take decades to clean up,  and devastated the life and or health of most [...]

One morning, about three years ago, while riding down a busy avenue on my bicycle, I crashed. Proud and cocky, I was going way too fast for the situation, and hit a parked car. Amazingly, I got off with minor injuries and had to pay only a few hundred dollars for damage to [...]

With the cost of regular gas now at $4.00 a gallon or higher, there is much talk about the “pain at the pump” and what effects this will have on people’s lives, the development of alternative energy sources, and so on. A few comments.
First, I have trouble when I see news reports showing people who [...]

When I was twelve, a church youth leader told me and my friends: “Don’t care too much for the environment. Care most of all for the people!” I couldn’t pinpoint exactly how I disagreed, and so I said nothing. I’m twenty-something years now and I finally recognize why [...]

Many of us want to reduce the chunk we are taking for ourselves out of God’s good earth. Rather than live consumeristic, circumscribed, self-centered lives, we want to live as though the rest of the world existed, making room for others – both human and nonhuman. We want to share – “to live [...]