Spiritual Ecology

Big Agribusiness likes to see acres and acres of rows of food growing in the fields, all looking the same.  Did you know that this is bad for the land?  The land used to be prairie and had lots of different stuff, including flowers, growing in it.  Wildlife found a home in one diverse area or another.  The land was renewed by this process.  Not so with the depletion due to agribusiness which is out for profit, not ecology.  Sameness stresses the soil.  Big business farming might recycle something, but they sure won't be planting flowers or turning the prairie over to the critters.

I wonder if the church is not stressed by sameness, everyone in lock step, like so many rows of corn?  I think that the church needs some diversity, to stay with our roots.  We might need people who differ with the status quo, the accepted way of doing things.  Jesus was not in step with the religious leaders, nor was Paul.  Once the Church became the power, its leaders did not want anymore diversity.  Was Lord Acton correct?  Power corrupts?