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To be sure, “God is love.” It’s such a short phrase that a small child can learn it instantly. And it’s good theology, which is more than can be said for some short phrases learned in religious education…. Truth is, I learned the phrase much too early—before I could reflect on many of the profound meanings of this phrase. Before anyone could teach me that love is love, no matter the genders, nations, or species, and that where love is, God is there.

Key to all our actions to building a stronger OneEarth food system is being guided by the OneEarth Paradigm. Do our food decisions strengthen the OneEarth agriculture paradigm? The more times we can answer “Yes,” the more our actions are making a difference for Earth’s benefit and ours. Every time we need to answer “No,” we are reminded that we need to look for a different choice.

In the 21st century, no human can be deaf to this collective Call to Earth-centered living. The voice rises from our souls, and comes at us from Earth through her weather, oceans, and lands. Soul and Earth speak with one voice. They add resonance to one another like octaves played on a keyboard.

Have you noticed all the words being spoken that have not only their usual meaning but also encode other meanings? To take just one example: “western civilization.” The Bruce Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization says…

I’m becoming more convinced with every week that passes that democracy, with its insistence on interdependency, has been the power at work in the millennia of evolution to bring forth the biodiverse creation we live in today. Authoritarianism, by contrast, has no such roots in the natural world.