Love. Joy. Peace. That’s the message of the season. From carols to holiday cards to street signs, even shopping mall windows. These words hover next to...
The story of Mary and Joseph leaving their small town for Bethlehem has spawned dramatizations, poems, carols and a lot more since it was first told...
Will the United Nations conference on human-caused climate change move toward saving the earth for habitation? That’s what’s at stake as the heads of the world’s...
Old people often shake their heads and mutter about “the younger generation.” Or they’ll say to one another, “It’s not the way it used to be,”...
The rural Southwest feels vast and empty. Driving from Los Angeles to New Mexico, my wife Susan and I saw sweeping landscapes of alluvial fans and...
Five trillion tons. That’s how much ice melted in Greenland and Antarctica between 2002 and 2014 – and the reason why the seas already rise above...
Sometimes religious people tend to be slower to adapt to changes coursing through the culture, especially with concerns about human-caused climate change. Even though polling shows...
I hope the oil lobbyists in Sacramento broke out some high-priced Champagne this weekend. They deserve it. They just scuttled the biggest and most likely-to-succeed effort...
I’ve always thought that if the various Protestant denominations can be said to represent a socio-economic sector of American culture, then the people who made up...
Here’s the good news: The percentage rate of change in global carbon emissions in 2014 was zero. It didn’t go up. That’s the first time in...
I’ve always believed that democracy was the best form of government because people can change it. And like a lot of us, I was taught that...
If you take your kids to the beach this summer, expect a gritty ride home. California has turned off most of the showers that people use...
Every year, every quarter, every month, the conventional economists either praise the increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or anxiously wring their hands because the economy...
More Americans believe in angels than in climate change. Still, a poll released earlier this year indicated that more Americans than ever now think that climate change is...
My wife Susan and I have just returned from a three-week trip to the East Coast. The journey included a week or so in Washington, D.C.,...
The religious spring festivals of Passover and Easter are behind us. We’ve paid our taxes. Congress has passed another bill to give the top two-hundredths of...
Sometimes the conventional narrative the media tell about a news story feels so wrong I can’t stand it — but I don’t know why until...
Our friend showed up late in the evening from Northern California to spend a couple of days with us before pushing on in a long-planned vacation....
With the expensive mid-term elections followed by Thanksgiving and Black Friday, followed by Cyber Monday, you’d think that people wouldn’t have much money left over for...
Earlier this month two dozen workers, clergy and other community folks sat down in the aisles of the Walmart store in Pico Riviera, then moved into...