Gaia clarified

Re God's Creation, April editorial
I appreciated the message that God's work of resurrection and renewal is an example for our treatment of creation. There's a detail, not central to the argument, that might be better explained, however – the Gaia hypothesis is not the belief that Earth is a living goddess who takes care of her inhabitants (this idea predates it, in any case). The Gaia hypothesis is a scientific theory, developed by Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock, that claims the Earth acts as a living being in which all systems work together to regulate the climate. The idea of this Gaia became mingled with then-trendy New Age-type beliefs, but that does not seem to be the researchers' original intent. Of course, Christianity has often been similarly simplified and misinterpreted by popular culture.