This Life: Singing praise for their Maker
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects on the wonder of the natural world…
Unfinished business
It’s a profound thing to realise that, according to Nancy Guthrie, at creation – “Eden was unspoilt, but also unfinished”. That is, there was still work to be done. And the beings God gave that responsibility to – was us. PICTURE: raffaelemontillo/iStockphoto Humanity are God’s emissaries on Earth, to bring about completion. Of course, we’ve […]
Universe impersonal?
Chris Watkin, in Biblical Critical Theory, says that in the West there are two grand narratives that compete for our worldview. The first says that the ultimate reality undergirding everything is energy; impersonal energy somehow made the universe. PICTURE: Pascal van de Vendel/Unsplash The second says that it was a personal being that did it; […]
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…