On Earth Community and Earth Ethics:
To embrace earth and live unreservedly in life as it is given us is to land in the arms of God. It is to embrace God and be embraced by God, the suffering God. Such living--throwing ourselves into life, embracing earth and its distress--is in fact the way of faith itself. It is responsible, "participation in the sufferings of God for the life of the world" and a faith that both saves life and savors life. It is earth ethics and our experience of "the power which still holds [us] by eternal, mysterious forces." It is life lived to the fullest. It may, in evil times, include the cross of resistance in the name of life itself. This is earth and its distress as "the Christian's song of songs."
Larry L. Rasmussen
To embrace earth and live unreservedly in life as it is given us is to land in the arms of God. It is to embrace God and be embraced by God, the suffering God. Such living--throwing ourselves into life, embracing earth and its distress--is in fact the way of faith itself. It is responsible, "participation in the sufferings of God for the life of the world" and a faith that both saves life and savors life. It is earth ethics and our experience of "the power which still holds [us] by eternal, mysterious forces." It is life lived to the fullest. It may, in evil times, include the cross of resistance in the name of life itself. This is earth and its distress as "the Christian's song of songs."
Larry L. Rasmussen
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