Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

I sometimes wonder why people live in either Los Angeles or San Francisco. Not that they aren’t lovely places (San Francisco much more so than L.A., but I like both), but surely the knowledge that a massive earthquake could strike anyday, and do catastrophic damage, ought to weigh heavily on their minds. Scientists say there’s…

Andrew Sullivan remarks on my two recent posts about tradition and postmodernity (first one here, second one here). Excerpt: Welcome to the modern world, Rod. The kind of unthinking cohesion of the past, sustained by elite control of the media and by ancient accommodation to a world before contraception, advances in longevity, and the technological…

Long, engaging post from Sharon Astyk laying out conditions under which people should abandon the idea of adapting to coming hard times in place, and should move. If you believe that oil will always be plentiful and cheap, and that climate change doesn’t exist, don’t bother clicking on the link. But if you do think…

Yes, there are far more serious things to be concerned about re: global warming than the fate of the wine industry, says Steven Kolpan — but it’s not nothing. Kolpan writes that we’re already seeing big and deleterious changes in wine-making from climate change. Excerpt: In 20 to 30 years, Burgundy, France, will be too…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners