In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.

No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.