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GOD has made us to be fully human and to live on a human scale.

All We Need is to Be Human

By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/28/2011

There was an evangelical environmental campaign several years ago that asked, What Would Jesus Drive?…meant to lead toward the idea that Jesus would be a low-carbon kind of guy who’d probably drive a Prius or maybe a grease bus…But what if Jesus wouldn’t drive anything?…

Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Environment & Creation, Features, Technology | Tagged Al Gore, christian environmentalism, climate chaos, Creation Care, crisis, environment, future, green living, human scale, Jesus, limits, society, Sustainability, Sustainable Living, technology | 2 Responses

Joel Salatin: Why food and farming matters to faith (original image: Fred First)

Joel Salatin | Food: The Cornerstone of Christian Credibility

By Jason Fowler on 10/22/2010

Salatin’s sense of urgency serves as a wake up call for Christians to begin embracing a more theologically holistic view of the world and a more sacred view of both eating and farming as environmentally, socially and spiritually transformative acts…

Posted in Audio, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agriculture, audio, Christian agrarian, christian environmentalism, christian ethics, conservative politics, creation, Creation Care, culture, ecology and Christian faith, farming, food system, intellectual agrarian, Joel Salatin, liberal politics, Modernism, Philosophy, polyface farm, Sustainable Agriculture, Theology, Virginia | 3 Responses

Can you keep cool without an air-conditioner? (montage: J Fowler)

Keeping Cool Without Air-Conditioning?

By Christine Sine on 07/19/2010

Have you ever wondered what air conditioning has to do with Christian faith? Its obviously not something that Jesus thought about so why should we get concerned?…

Posted in Environment & Creation | Tagged air pollution, christian environmentalism, christian faith, Christine Sine, conserving energy, energy consumption, environment, keeping cool, summer | 4 Responses

Cyrus the Great helped the Jews return and rebuild Jerusalem

The Cyrus Principle

By Dean Ohlman on 11/30/2009

In his book Biology Through the Eyes of Faith, Dr. Richard Wright speaks of the Cyrus Principle in reference to the many non-Christians who have worked diligently to preserve the wonder and integrity of God’s creation and have in essence done what God’s children could have and should have at least been actively involved in.

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