Exodus 20:5 – Original sin = generational trauma
When I was growing up, one of the things that really bothered me about Christianity (aside from corporal punishment at a Catholic primary school in Switzerland) was the doctrine of…
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New Earth tools #16 – Balance
The journey to Christ is a perplexing one, an endless series of shifts, reversals and abrupt changes of direction. It’s like a stock market graph—gradual gains over an extended period…
New Earth tools #15 – Gratitude
The Christian mystic William Blake wrote that “It is an easy thing to triumph in the summer’s sun / And in the vintage and to sing on the waggon loaded…
Deuteronomy 28 – How climate change caused the Fall
We know that the Old Testament took place in the context of the desert. That’s not precise enough. It actually took place in the context of desertification—the onset or increase of…