“Jerry, I’m terrified!” a Lancaster father told me last week. This father wants the enchanted outdoor world of his own childhood to be the same world his young son can enjoy. But he clearly understands that’s not going to happen and he’s scared. He cited a World Wildlife Fund report that concluded “Between 1970 and…

“Prayers, Poems and Promises” on a tree in the wind at Susquehanna Universary after Kevin Miller and I led “Creative Approaches to Saving the Beauty of God’s Earth” for the annual meeting of Penn Central Conference, United Church of Christ. (6-12-15)  Here’s a prayer written together by the whole group of participants in our workshop.…