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Don't know if anyone saw this in Sunday's Star Tribune (free registration required). "Remember James Watt, President Ronald Reagan's first secretary of the interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, "after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back."" By the way, in Minnesota the last Friday of April is Arbor Day. Go plant a tree.

Every generation brings along a person who re-discovers the gospel of God for their time. Paul did it - he set the stage; Augustine did it; Luther and Calvin did it; Edwards did it; Wesley did it; Barth did it; C.S. Lewis did it; Stott and Packer have done it; and now I believe Brian McLaren is doing it. "More to come," as Johnny Carson would say...

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