Books

Wendell Berry: Gardening as Health Regimen and Holy Sacrament

By Craig Goodwin on 03/10/2010

If I could impose my will on every American for the sake of the environment it wouldn’t be to change light bulbs or mandate carbon footprints. My mandate would be for every American to start a garden and grow their own food

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Henri Nouwen and the Three Monks of Tolstoy

By Dan Horwedel on 03/01/2010

The Afterward in ‘The Only Necessary Thing,’ various writings from Henri Nouwen, contains this little story about “The Three Monks of Tolstoy”: Three Russian monks lived in a faraway island…

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Growing Deeper In Our Church Communities [Book Review]

By J Fowler on 02/12/2010

It is a quiet but revolutionary cultural critique that calls the church to abandon Western individualism and renew our call to be the Body of Jesus- connected in proximity, together pursuing the purposes of GOD.

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Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship

By Meg Dunn on 02/12/2010

Caring for the environment is a moral issue. How we interact with the world around us, not just with other people but with the stuff of the earth, is not a matter of right, but of responsibility…

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The Gospel of Guerrilla Gardening

By Lucas Land on 02/12/2010

Many of the oldest established community gardens were started by people that claimed some abandoned space and started planting there. I love the idea of sneaking life into dead places. It sounds a lot like the gospel to me.

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New Monasticism: What It Has To Say To Today’s Church [Book Review]

By Chris Smith on 07/14/2009

In his newest book New Monasticism, What It Has To Say To Today’s Church, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove strikes up a conversation about the new monasticism with the broader Church. Indeed, of all the books to date on the new monasticism*, this one is aimed at the broadest audience within the Church.

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A Conservationist Manifesto [Book Review]

By Chris Smith on 07/14/2009

A Conservationist Manifesto is a glorious new collection of essays by Scott Russell Sanders, the noted, novelist, nature writer and Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University.

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Books

Wendell Berry: Gardening as Health Regimen and Holy Sacrament

Henri Nouwen and the Three Monks of Tolstoy

Growing Deeper In Our Church Communities [Book Review]

Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship

The Gospel of Guerrilla Gardening

New Monasticism: What It Has To Say To Today’s Church [Book Review]

A Conservationist Manifesto [Book Review]

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