This is why theologian John Cobb, in what he calls the Earthist challenge, says somewhat startlingly: Earth is a far more inclusive and suitable object of devotion than Christianity, a nation, or economic growth...

She was so mad you'd have thought she'd been propositioned by a bad-breathed lobbyist in a broken-elevator encounter at City Hall.

A megagon is close to the perfection of a circle — a kind of generational transmutation.

the priest esteems their layships unhallowed and unclean