Our Heavenly Help Psalm 124:1-8 Our help is from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 124:8 Psalm 124 offers a stirring word of encouragement. It begins by asking a rhetorical question: “What if the LORD had not been on our side?” (124:1). The simple answer is: We’d be a complete mess, utterly without hope. But, because God is on our side, “the trap is broken, and we are free!” (124:7). The last verse of this psalm reminds... Read more
If Peas Can Talk, Should We Eat Them? Really! No Joke.
“If Peas Can Talk, Should We Eat Them?” No, that’s not a joke or a trick question. It’s a serious question, seriously asked in a recent article in the New York Times. And it’s being asked by a serious thinker: Michael Marder, the Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Northern Spain). This article no doubt reflects some of his ideas in his forthcoming book: Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. Here are some... Read more