Force of nature: Anthony Gimpel’s world view

‘Nature is infinitely more powerful than any combination of puny human beings.’

'Be still and know that I am God. God is not an uncle. God is a hurricane. God is an earthquake.' | Photo: by NASA

We are living in times full of fear. But maybe there is nothing particularly new in this state. Ever since Pandora disobeyed and opened the box to find that the only thing left to her was hope – the spirit that assures us we are OK – we have had an astonishing capacity to scare ourselves. Yet perhaps the more remarkable fact is that huge numbers of us have survived – prospered, even, and multiplied just as God promised Abraham.

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