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On my bike ride home from the train station, I see a church sign: "Shaking Foundations? God is Big Enough to Hold Onto." I assume that the person who put this sign up was thinking about economic or personal foundations, was trying to speak to the heightened anxiety that has its grip on our society.

But I can't help but think of another shaking foundation. Last week in Philadelphia, members of 65 organizations gathered in a rally (described by some as "raucous") to oppose rules that would allow fracking--a method of extracting natural gas--to go forward in Pennsylvania.