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A new ecclesia founded on glebe
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The term ‘quahal’ (translated into English as ‘assembly’, ‘congregation’ or ‘company’) appears about one hundred times in the Old Testament, mostly in rather late strata. According to Gottwald it is ‘an instrument by which Israelites come together to reach collective decisions and to carry out ceremonial activities’. When the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek…
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How many people can the earth support?
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Andrew Lack takes issue with Colin Tudge’s suggestion that we, humanity, should be aiming for a world population of one billion rather than the 10 billion that now seems liable to come about. Colin has suggested that a billion people on earth may be sustainable, requiring an eight-fold or even greater reduction from the situation…
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Soil is a community. It is a conversation
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Rabbi Jeffery Newman reflects on the harmony of life, as is manifest in science, in religion, and is visible in a clod of earth Civilisation rests on six inches of soil. The film of that name — Six Inches of Soil (Colin Ramsay, 2024) has made this truth newly visible to a wide audience, but…
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How might we live in the future? And what do we really need to do to enable us to live as well as possible?
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Chris Jones suggests that the high technologies we are developing now with such vigour and at such expense, are leading us into a future that is not realistic. So what do we need instead? We have become used to lives of increasing complexity, with a steady increase in the availability of ever smarter, labour-saving, pleasure-giving…
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The Christian attitude to nature
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Christian theologian Tim Gorringe argues that “To trash or seek to dominate this Creation is not simply unethical but is ‘the most horrid blasphemy’” In his recent blog “Fellow Creatures” Colin Tudge suggests that the traditional Christian attitude to the natural world is inadequate, not to say flawed. Christians, he says, take their lead from…
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A people-led renaissance needs people-centred spaces
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To create the kind of world that could keep humanity and our fellow creatures in good heart we need radical thinking and new ideas. But first, says Jane Powell, we need to create the conditions — the “space” — in which the necessary thinking can take place Discussions of food and farming in progressive circles…