Nonprofits In Denial

Excerpted from an article on Philanthropy.com: Nonprofits, like other organizations, often follow a commonly held view about the best way to handle an attack: If you ignore it, the public will forget and move on. The media thrive on controversy, so don’t discuss it and don’t highlight it in any way and journalists will move...

World Oceans Day – What Would ANO Do? / Part 1 – “Who Owns Creation?”

In LCC's Pollution Confusion I discussed how using the passage from Numbers to advocate against polluting the oceans was a confusion of the two kingdoms and had little if anything in common with the pollution World Oceans Day was intended to address. After the article was posted I got some pushback "What would you do?"  and I'd...

LCC’s Pollution Confusion

Recently LCC posted the following article to their Facebook group in honor of #WorldOceansDay https://www.facebook.com/lutheranchurch.canada/photos/a.448431991922194.1073741825.307839245981470/1583446091754106/?type=3 If you take a close look at the bottom you'll see a quote of Numbers 35:33. If you were the curious type like me you might wonder how this passage connects to World Oceans Day. Here's Numbers 35:30-34 with Numbers 35:33 in...