If the nations that built on the Judeo-Christian heritage do not soon see the work of earth care and climate change as a moral and spiritual imperative, one wonders how we will have any moral authority left?

The edge is a holy place, or as the Celts called it, "a thin place" and you have to be taught how to live there.  To take your position on the spiritual edge of things is to learn how to move safely in and out, back and forth, across and return. It is a prophetic position, not a rebellious or antisocial one.

Richard Rohr sums up this whole spirituality of initiation in a one liner: the young man who cannot cry is a savage, the old man who cannot laugh is a fool.

For Richard Rohr the question is always "how can we turn information into transformation?" How can we use the sacred texts to lead people into new places with God, with life, with themselves?