How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

I concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marriage, if and only if it had the about it the same character of absolute covenanted faithfulness.

We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.