by Gary Simpson | Nov 4, 2020
Today is November 4. Circle the date on your calendar. One year ago today Donald Trump moved to withdraw America, the 2nd highest green house gas emitter on the planet, from the landmark Paris Climate Accord. Today, as Lisa Friedman in a NY Times article reminds us,...
by Gary Simpson | Nov 1, 2020
October 31, 2020, is Reformation Day. On this day throughout Christendom followers of Christ Jesus all around the world are called upon to remember an historical event that rocked the Christian world and changed the course of western civilization. It was on...
by Gary Simpson | Aug 15, 2020
It was July 26, 1775 when the U.S. postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general. It was Franklin who put in place the foundation for many aspects of today’s mail system. It was also an...
by Gary Simpson | Jul 14, 2020
Those are the three words that conclude Bill McKibben’s “swan song” (of sorts) to his colleagues at 350.org and his friends throughout the broader climate justice movement, “On we go…” Today is a date to be circled on this nation’s environmental calendar (if we had...
by Gary Simpson | Jul 9, 2020
“Last week, a black professor told me he always asks his white students if they have ever heard racism called a sin in the pulpits of their churches growing up. The answer is almost always no.” ~Jim Wallis Consider this to be a continuation, Part II of the previous...