Author: Daniela

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The Angel (A god who renounced his faith) You asked me what I would like to be in your eyes, I said: God. For a time I granted you favours and punished you. Were you fleeing my grief, when you failed to tell me That you had a cuckold Lord bestowing gifts upon you all…

April 8 will leave topical Mars visible from Earth

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Bring out the telescopes because on April 8, Mars will come nearest to Earth as it has since 2007 in a configuration astronomers call “opposition.” This is when both Earth and Mars, the third and fourth planets out from the sun, respectively, fall in a straight line out from our sun. If the skies are…

Distributism – Essential Reading

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For those of you who are interested in Distributism, here are a few good places to start. Belloc’s book, The Restoration of Property and Chesterton’s An Outline of Sanity. Wilhelm Ropke is clearly sympathetic to many distributist ideas in his A Humane Economy. A more recent treatment is by John Medaille titled Toward a Truly Free Market. These will get…

Pope Francis and Distributism

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in New Economy

There appears to be a new interest in Distributism, possibly because of Pope Francis’ first apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium.” Arthur Hunt in The American Conservative puts the Pope’s message into the context of Catholic social teaching. “The problems of the poor could not be solved by a “simple welfare mentality.” Well, by what then? The document is…

Imagining Healthy Work

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in Earth Community

These excerpts from Jeffery Bilbo’s lecture at Spring Arbor University’s annual Focus series gets to the heart of why “good work often seems impossible…” I’ll begin with a rough definition of good work, one we can refine as we proceed. Good human work participates in God’s redemptive work; thus it is our loving, healing, and humane…

Organics Under Attack

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The OCA has a long history of defending the integrity of organic standards. Last September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), under pressure from corporate interests represented by the Organic Trade Association, made our job harder. They also made it more important than ever for consumers to do their homework, even when buying USDA certified organic products.…

Is It Time For A Meat Tax?

Apr 5, 2014

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Originally posted on The Dish: Charles Kenny makes the case: The Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports that in 2012, 966 million pigs, 1.5 billion cattle, and 22 billion chickens were roaming (actually, mostly not roaming) the world’s farms. For cattle, that’s five times the number in 1890 and for pigs about a…

Organic Farming – Solution to World Hunger

Apr 5, 2014

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The following article by Paul Hanley in Saskatoon’s The Star Phoenix succinctly lays out the benefits of organic farming and the issues with industrial farming. To summarize it in a nutshell, “We need to start paying farmers for ecological services, not just food. The money can come from repurposing perverse subsidies on fossil fuels and farming,…

A Middle-Schooler’s Idea To Save The Federal Government $136 Million

Mar 29, 2014

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Originally posted on The Dish: Just change the font of printed documents.

Live Streamed Lecture by Vandana Shiva

Mar 25, 2014

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