Planet in Distress

Before Russia brutally massacred civilians and intentionally targeted critical infrastructure in Ukraine such as hospitals and schools and day-care centers, and before the Russian invasion brought Ukraine’s vast wheat-growing operations to a grinding halt, food prices were already near all-time highs.  For very poor people the world over – meaning those living on $2 a […]

The global pandemic has not yet run its course and, if the several dangerous mutations now in circulation are any indication, the world may live with Covid for some time longer – perhaps much longer. But while we have all been paying attention to Covid, the world’s natural systems have continued their accelerating decline, to […]

No one in their right mind wants to live through the end times.  The Bible makes clear that the wars, pestilence, famine and upheaval in the natural world are without precedence during those days.  And yet here we are, living in a time when prophecies regarding the last days are increasingly fulfilled. In this blog […]

What a fascinating time to be alive. Right in front of us, the earth and human society are as one in accelerating decay and on a terminal trajectory while we as a society are doing pretty much…. nothing.  At the same time, and of magnitudes of order more importance, some 7.7 billion souls hang in […]

I keep saying the end game has started, by which I mean that the end times spoken of in the Bible have started.  But am I over-stating it?  After all, the Bible paints a very stark picture – there will be a period of epic distress and conflict and suffering (the beginning of sorrows) that […]

The disciples of Jesus posed a fascinating question to him at the very end of His ministry.  Jesus had just finished telling them about the coming destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, and in Matthew 24:3 they responded with a more expansive question: “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be sign […]

Selfishness is an absolutely terrible organizing principle upon which to base any system.  The problem with selfishness as the basis for a system is that the resulting system collapses in on itself; it is the inescapable nature of selfishness that drives all members of a system to be in competition with each other and to […]

The Economist has an excellent article out (paywall) about floods and storms altering the perceptions of Americans toward climate change.  The seesaw of flooding and drought that is increasingly more prevalent in the US and in the world is redefining what “normal” is.  Certainly anyone who is, say, 40, and can remember when our climate did […]

As humans, we live at the top of the planet’s food chain.  We control the earth, bending it to our will, and using advanced agricultural techniques to force a robust harvest of food for our species.  In doing this, we don’t think much about the welfare of the planet’s vast population of insects, birds, or other vertebrates and invertebrates.   […]

Have you ever wondered how some things in prophecy could possibly be fulfilled? What chain of events would be required to take us from where we are now to where we are prophesied to be? Take some of the scenes painted in Matthew 24 and Luke 21, for instance. Taken together they paint a picture […]