Article 1: In his sermon preached June 5, 2016, at the Ho-Ping Church in Taipei, Rolston emphasized that, like ancient Israel, all peoples today reside on lands with promise, promised lands. Taiwan was long known as Formosa, the beautiful island. Americans sing "America, the Beautiful." Earth is a planet with great promise; such planets are rare in the universe. The main theme of ecological ethics is homing. We are all "Earth gardeners" who have a divine destiny to "care for the Earth," our home planet.
