There is a novel written by American author Thomas Wolfe titled “You Can’t Go Home Again.”  I confess I’ve never read it, but the phrase of the title has entered our language. It means that once you have left a small town and moved to the big city, your mind set changes to the point that you can never recover the way of life you had and any attempt to revisit old memories of those times will fail.

I’ve been meeting for the past two days with the committee planning the 41st General Council in Ottawa this August, and I’m very excited about what’s taking shape. Tomorrow morning I head to Tatamagouche Centre in Nova Scotia to lead a ‘Soul, Community and Creation’ retreat. Monica Graham’s story in today’s Halifax Chronicle Herald has captured some important insights about how I have come to understand the relationship between these three:

Since our highly successful live, interactive Earth Day webcast on Sunday, there have been lots of enthusiastic additional comments and ripples that I’m just catching up on this morning. (At the end of this post I’ll tell you what I’ve been up to since Sunday.)

This is a truly mind bending program, very informative, well explained.

http://ww3.tvo.org/video/173822/secret-life-chaos

Our worship this year has been framed by a Good Friday that fell on Earth Day last year and a Sunday in Easter that will fall on Earth Day this year. (I wrote about this in the Toronto Star on Good Friday 2011.

I took advantage of this coincidence to plan an Easter celebration of Earth Day involving

I watched "Curiousity" the other night, which was about Stephen Hawking's theory that the Universe came from nothing, and there is no God.  He states, "Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no Time for God to make the Universe."

Please watch the episodes FIRST, then add your thoughts.