how you can be a christian and give a rat's ass about the world, all at the same time

While we patiently await Kev's insights, here's a WB essay that maybe a lot of us have read already...but which has several points of intersection with the Reece piece, e.g. :

the "catastrophic discrepancies between biblical instruction and Christian behavior"

"the continuous, constant participation of all creatures in the being of God"

the Bible as an "outdoor book"

and a bunch of other good stuff.