Archive for ◊ July, 2010 ◊
An eco-spirituality writer who grew up on Second Coming theology, Brenda Peterson, has just published a book sparkling with humor about life and family in an autobiography, I Want to be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth.
Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” If he were walking among us today, he would say, “Blessed are the bonobo peacemakers,” as I discuss in chapter 5 of my book, Green Kingdom Come!
I was born in Ohio in 1931, where the most spectacular extinction episode imaginable had come to a horrid end only 17 years earlier in the Cincinnati Zoo. In 1800 there were 5 billion passenger pigeons in the United States, and in 1914 there were zero. Many pigeons died in planned slaughters.
At age 78 I’ve decided to prepare a family history, which means, organizing the records of several generations.





