Is it not stupid that Amazon, the company, is worth billions in the economy, while Amazon the rainforest is worth nothing – until it is destroyed for logging or agriculture? Its real worth, as a generator of oxygen and biodiversity is unaccounted for, even though we all depend on it. …
Entangled Life. How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake (Random House, 2020) I really like this book. I guess that is partly because it intersects with so many different bits of my own life, and I will mention some of those intersections …
10,000 in London, 38,000 in Berlin: protestors claiming that Covid is a hoax. Why on earth do they believe such nonsense? But then why do I, and others, think we know better? We all tend to assume that our sources of information are reliable, but it won’t do to write …
In my early years as a professional geologist and a Christian, I spent a great deal of time explaining to people who took a literal view of Genesis chapter 1 that the unequivocal discoveries of science pointed to a universe some 13-14 billion years old, and planet Earth about …
One of the things that I’ve found myself drawn to time and again over the past year, and especially during times of lockdown, has been the sayings of the Desert Fathers and Mothers. If you’re not familiar with them, these were women and men in the 4th century who took …
Four years ago, on 20th January 2017, we were in Wells, Somerset, on the last day of our post-Christmas break. I had written JRI briefing paper number 32, “Donald Trump, the Environment and the Church” in the preceding weeks, and we planned to release it on the day of the …
