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By Bill Guerrant on 08/27/2010
In the 4th Century A.D. the Roman emperor Julian was concerned about the spread of Christianity in his empire…He wrote: “Nothing has contributed to the progress of the superstition of these Christians as their charity to strangers. The impious Galileans provide not only for their own poor, but for ours as well.”
Posted in Church & World History, Features, Social Justice | Tagged caring for the poor, christian faith, Christians, Church History, embodying our faith, history, Jesus followers, Julian the Apostate, love, margins of empire, mercy, mission, Poverty, Roman empire, Social Justice |
By Jason Fowler on 08/02/2010
Despite what the title may infer, it is not just for farmers- it is for all of us who long for the coming shalom of GOD’s New Earth. He begins by inviting city dwellers to get their hands in God’s dirt…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Food & Agriculture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, book, book review, Christian agrarian, christian faith, church gardens, Creation Care, environment, environment and faith, faith-based community garden movement, farming, Farming As A Spiritual Discipline, ragan sutterfield, Sustainable Agriculture, the agrarian mind, Wendell Berry |
By Caroline D'Angelo on 07/30/2010
Everybody should support sustainable agriculture because it will help alleviate health problems, environmental pollution and help strengthen communities…but Christians have added incentive to do so, since it is a way of worship, Biblically relevant and connected to teachings of Jesus…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, agriculture, Bible, christian faith, Creation Care, environment, environmental ethics, ethics, ethics of eating, farming, food, Jesus, Sustainable Agriculture |
By Jason Fowler on 07/29/2010
I found this great video today from PBS featuring Norman Wirzba, Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life Duke Divinity School…This excellent video gives a brief snapshot into the growing confluence between the sustainable agriculture movement and the American Church at large…
Posted in Food & Agriculture, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, Anathoth Community Garden, christian ethics, christian faith, church farms, church gardens, community gardening, ethics of eating, faith, food, food and faith, Gardening, Norman Wirzba, Sustainable Agriculture, video |
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 |
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 06/25/2010
Jesus taught us to call GOD ‘poppa’- a blasphemous intimacy for the religious people of his day- but when Poppa seems to have withdrawn how do you maintain your trust in Him?…
Posted in Theology, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged christian faith, Dear GOD, doubt, faith, Father GOD, GOD, Jesus, Monsters of Folk, Poppa GOD, Prayer, trust |
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 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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