By Pam Fowler on 07/26/2010
When my husband first showed me ‘Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual’ by Michael Pollan, we were both struck by how small it was, but I was hooked from the first glance. ‘Food Rules’ is a quick and very enjoyable read filled with witty, quirky sayings that are fun to read yet are full of wisdom…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agriculture, body as temple, book, book review, christian stewardship, diet, food, food and nutrition, Food Inc, Food Rules, holistic faith, industry, michael pollan, society |
By Arloa Sutter on 07/06/2010
As I have walked for the past eighteen years alongside thousands of men and women who have become homeless…and as I have visited impoverished communities throughout the world, I have discovered…We actually can…find sustainable, manageable ways to make a difference in the lives of the poor…
Posted in Features, Social Justice | Tagged Arloa Sutter, Breakthrough Urban Ministries, caring for the poor, christian faith, compassion, homeless, Jesus, margins, mercy, ministry, Poverty, Social Justice, society, Teresa of Avila, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Ricci Kilmer on 07/02/2010
I was missing communion, I was missing the body of Christ. And not just the spiritualized view of the Lord’s Table but the actual down to earth translation of what that meant. What does it mean to BE Christ’s body for people? What does it mean to say that his body is offered freely?…
Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged being the Body of Christ, christian faith, communion, embodying our faith, eucharist, food, incarnational faith, Intentional Christian Community, justice, Lord's Supper, Social Justice, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Jason Fowler on 07/01/2010
I see a new generation returning to GOD’s creation- working with it- cultivating it instead of abusing it. Of all the things in the world, I feel the most hopeful when I see these ‘greenhorns’ marching across fields with seeds of tomorrow in hand…
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, America, farming, greenhorns, Homesteading, Sustainable Agriculture, the future of agriculture, urban agriculture, video, young farmers |
By Wildcat Center on 07/01/2010
What Mark and Katharine have in common (and with a growing number of people) is a plunge into the deep end, giving up money and seeing how life turns out…
Posted in Features, Intentional Living, Money & Economics | Tagged economy, freeconomy, freegan, Intentional Living, Katharine Hibbert, life without money, living without money, Mark Boyle, new economics |
By Chuck Summers on 06/30/2010
I’ve tried to think about how God sees this disaster. Because people are hurting I know God hurts too. The same thing goes for the wildlife. An entire ecosystem God created is threatened. This has to bring Him grief. God has asked us to be stewards of His Creation, not destroyers…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged BP oil spill, Christian response to oil spill, creation, Creation Care, creation groans, faith and the environment, Gulf Oil Spill, lament, new creation, oil spill, theology of creation |
By Jason Fowler on 06/21/2010
The Gulf oil spill is an open wound- it is the lifeblood of the Industrial Age- mixing with the salty tears of GOD…Our future lies in humility before GOD and not in our utopian dreams. From that point of reconciliation a new way of life can begin…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged BP oil spill, christian faith, Christian response to BP oil spill, Creation Care, deepwater horizon, environment, environmental crisis, Gulf Coast, industrial age, oil spill |
By Michael Marsh on 06/09/2010
The gulf oil spill bears witness that we have rejected our earthliness, forgotten who we are, and broken the sacred connection between ourselves and our world. As Metropolitan John Zizioulas writes, “The human being has rejected his role as the priest of creation by making himself God in creation.”
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged BP, Christian response to BP oil spill, creation, Creation Care, creation groaning, creation's lament, deepwater horizon, environment, Genesis 2:7, Gulf Oil Spill, oil spill, Priest of Creation, St. Anthony, St. Antony, theology of creation, witness of creation |
By Russell D. Moore on 06/09/2010
As I type this, I am looking out at the Gulf of Mexico…those waters I grew up with, gently lapping against the sand, are threatening to bring with them millions of gallons of oil…Five years after Hurricane Katrina leveled this hometown of mine, it is bracing for the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged BP, Christian response to oil spill, Conservatism, Creation Care, environment, Evangelicalism, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill, Russell D. Moore |
By Scott Williams on 06/07/2010
Please join me in prayer for the families of those who died and were injured, for those whose lives and livelihoods have been affected, for those working to clean up the spill, and for God’s creatures and creations that are damaged…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged BP, Creation Care, Creation Hope, Environment & Creation, Gulf Coast, lament, oil spill, Prayer, Scott Williams |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 06/07/2010
During the Duke Center for Reconciliation’s Summer Institute, Christians from varied denominations, backgrounds, and nations gathered to explore the work Christ is doing in reconciling all things…As followers of Christ…we mourn the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and the BP oil spill now polluting the Gulf of Mexico…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged beyond petroleum, christian faith, Christian response to BP oil spill, deepwater horizon, Duke Center for Reconciliation, ecology, environment, environmental disaster, godly grieving, Gulf of Mexico, lament, oil spill, reconciliation, repent |
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