I received news this week from a former colleague who is a pastor of a church and a university professor in the Czech Republic. He wrote that he had been invited to speak on local radio and gave this brief but thought-provoking account of the interview, which is reproduced here with his permission. "They asked me what I think the world will be like when everything goes back to normal. I said the world has not been normal before, in fact, it has never been normal...

...The world is broken and has been broken ever since the story of Adam and Eve is told. I also told them I believe this is an opportunity to meditate on our brokenness and start doing things differently. Do we really want to rush back to the type of life we lived before, plundering the earth, the air, the nature…, producing and consuming like madmen? The lady asked me if I think the Earth wants to tell us something. My response was: Earth is not our mother, it is rather our sister, we all are creatures. Maybe it is our Creator that wants to tell us something. I said that nothing on this planet will change unless we change. Change of heart or mind usually happens when we are in a crisis, in a really critical situation. I am not sure whether this situation is critical enough to make us repent and change us radically on a global scale, but I – as an individual – have the opportunity to be challenged."