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For God So Loves the World

Of course care for creation should be a priority, but when the Bible was written, there was no “environmental issue” as we think of it. That there might someday be a human threat to the environment, to nature, did not occur to our ancient ancestors. Human “control” over nature was very modest, recent, and understandably [...]

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God Provides, Doesn’t Protect

I believe that God is present everywhere, in everything – that the universe is shot through with the radiant presence of God. Thus we are always “in God,” even as God is more than the universe. But to say that God is everywhere and in everything does not mean that God is the cause, directly [...]

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