Our Primary Spiritual Question

    I would like to share with you part of a post by Dr. Authur Green, rector of Hebrew College's Rabbinical School. Rabbi Green is a noted author and teacher on modern Jewish thought and practice.
    We Jews are very invested in the future and in our grandchildren. Even though we are nominally  believers in the afterlife, for most Jews, survival really is about the survival of future generations. We need future generations to be the receivers of this heritage we care so much about. 
   But of course, there's so much more to it than that. The second level is faith in creation. We are believers in Creation, however we interpret it. Without being literal believers in the Genesis story, we understand that life has everything to do with a God who is present in and behind this world. So, preservation of this earth, which we love, is a sacred duty; it is a preservation of the manifestation of divine glory, not just the natural world; it is something that is deeply connected to the purpose of our existence. We are here in a kind of role of trustee or steward. 
  A new creation story has emerged since Darwin. I try to teach people that the most sacred story of all time is the story of evolution itself, ... if we are open to it. We need to rediscover the sacred dimension of the natural world and then, treat it as sacred. I think this is the most important task of religion in this century.
      Thank you, Rabbi Green.
      I have left 'The Church', mainly because nowhere do I see the above reality being addressed. I know of no churches that are challenging people to change their lives so to be leaders in life-styles that are faithful to the earth. Nowhere is that Word becoming Flesh. The spirituality of churches is treating (or not) this primary challenge of our time as a side issue, if at all. This issue alone makes Christianity worthy of our non-attention. How sad it is to see all the strength, time and heritage of the past disappearing into nothing! We still think that thinking (believing) is what Jesus was about!
     Please, if there are exceptions to this, let me and others know of it. Any good news needs to be shared, to Christians and to all others.
     Sincerely,
     Anthony, just One Disciple