Planet in Distress

My hiatus is over – look for an important post in the next couple days.  In the meantime, I want to call your attention to a project – a message, really – that has been taking up a lot of  my time and is the subject of my next book (whose working title is “The […]

I have just returned from a one month bicycle ride across the US.  It was a father-and-son trip, and we took the northern tier (started on the coast  of Washington State and ended on the coast of Maine).  During the trip I did not post, and I hardly posted for the six weeks leading up […]

The earth continues its slow but accelerating decay, with distress signs visible in all of its major life-sustaining systems — its atmospheric, hydrospheric, oceanic, climate, cryospheric and soil systems.  In each of these systems we can currently see disruptions, but the interesting thing is the degree to which the  disruptions are linked to each other […]

Zika has reached epidemic levels in parts of the Caribbean and South America, and is expected to achieve local transmission status in the contiguous United States soon (it is already a massive local transmission problem in Puerto Rico and other US territories).  The virus may eventually infect more than half the world’s population.  While the […]

The Selfishness Paradigm is the working title of my next book, and it is a topic that I am excited to be writing about.  I am currently working on a series of short videos on the topic (more on this as that project develops) and have begun writing and speaking publicly on parts of the topic.  You […]

What happens when very large crisis are apparent on the horizon and it becomes clear that some in a country will lose a great deal and others will be asked to chip in to assist with the losses?  Politics, that’s what happens.  Positioning and messaging and the careful arranging of arguments.  Everything needed to get […]

Looking at the situation in the world now, I have to ask, in all seriousness, are we now at that tipping point?  Let’s review the facts as we know them:  Christ told us in Matthew 24 (and Mark 13 and Luke 21) what would happen in the last days.  He was actually quite detailed.  He […]