Have you ever heard of the five Rs? Here they are: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot. They are a useful model when you want to get started with fair […]
As a child growing up in church, I heard and read these words by Jesus countless times. God’s kingdom is ‘here’, it’s ‘close’, it’s ‘coming’. Yet, little did I know just how close that kingdom of God really is! Or that I would discover it in truly unexpected ways …
Our own preoccupation with the usefulness of wider creation for our own gain is symptomatic of our selfishness. We forget that the world was not created for humankind, but rather for God. From the start of creation there is a relational context of interdependence.
Valentine’s Day can simply seem like a product of our shallow, materialistic culture. The thing is, love needs actions to make it real. This Valentine’s Day, whether or not you’ll be romancing a loved one, why not take a risk and do something practical to sow love for God’s creation?
A report from the World Conservation Congress, 1–10 September 2016: ‘Until recently, the conservation movement has been overwhelmingly secular. But the sense here is that this is a moral and even a spiritual crisis…’
If anyone has earned the right to comment about monetizing nature it is Christiaan Bakkes: he spent twenty years in Namibian conservation organizations helping it to happen. But at the heart of the enterprise was a contradiction which is undoing all the gains of the previous fifteen years. Now the wildlife is being decimated.
“The ‘what can nature do for us’ approach has made it increasingly difficult for conservationists to protect the most threatened species on the planet. We have an important moral and ethical decision to make: Do these species have a right to survive or do we have a right to drive them to extinction?”
