Saving God's Creation in the Philippines
by John MurdockAs stewards, it is our duty to take care of the earth. The new documentary Delikado bears brave witness to the fact that this is not always easy. Continue Reading »
Earth Day and Death
by John MurdockSir John Houghton, who died last week of COVID-19, spent much of his life seeking to rally fellow Christians to the cause of climate change preparation. Continue Reading »
Fertility and Toxicity
by Lyman StoneOne pernicious effect of lead exposure is not widely understood: It reduces biological fertility and increases the rate of fetal death and miscarriage. Continue Reading »
“Even Mother Nature Has An Agent”
by Philip BessOver the last fifteen years or so I have seen (and been moved by) many of the aspirational/inspirational billboards sponsored by The Foundation for a Better Life, an organization that promotes common-ground character virtues while trying at the same time to avoid being a partisan in our contemporary . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pope and the Plowman
by John MurdockAfter you exit the interstate and turn on a two lane strip of asphalt headed towards Wendell Berry’s old Kentucky home, one of the first signs you see proclaims—with the leading word emblazoned in red letters: “Caution, Church Entrance Ahead.” It is a warning that Mr. Berry, the celebrated . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pope's Moment of Grace
by William Doino Jr.When the Pope’s highly anticipated encyclical, Laudato Si finally appeared, Detroit’s Archbishop Allen Vigneron summed up its significance by calling it “a moment of grace.”The new encyclical has been widely described as “the pope’s encyclical on climate change.” But one shouldn’t be . . . . Continue Reading »
Praise Be to You, Lord
by Charles J. ChaputThe First World War lingers in the memory as humanity’s first encounter with industrialized killing on a mass scale. New weapons of the machine age obliterated forests, villages and fields—an entire way of life. This new type of war also deeply shaped the thinking of men who experienced it . . . . Continue Reading »
Four Things to Remember About the Pope’s Environment Letter
by Robert P. GeorgeThe Pope has no special knowledge, insight, or teaching authority pertaining to matters of empirical fact. . . . Continue Reading »
Christ and Creation's Longing
by Richard John NeuhausIn 1971, I published In Defense of People, the first book-length critique of “the ecology movement” that was then in ascendancy and that pretty much shaped the arguments that continue to swirl around the varieties of environmentalism today. There are significant differences between then and . . . . Continue Reading »
Ecotastrophe Again
by Herbert LondonThe drumbeat for apocalypse can once again be heard in the media. Almost two decades after the publication of The Limits to Growth, the Club of Rome scenario that predicted ecological catastrophe, the WorldWatch Institute has picked up the mantle of leadership in the discredited field of what I . . . . Continue Reading »
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