Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's hidden Being." This means that we and all other creatures live by a sanctity that is inexpressibly intimate, for to every creature, the gift of life is a portion of the breath and spirit of God. (pg. 308, Christianity and the Survival of Creation)

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

Eating is an agricultural act.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.