Pilgrimage and Thin Places: Seeking Intimacy With GOD
Within days of my salvation, I longed to spend time in nature, seeking GOD and seeing Him reflected through His creation. There were times when a major decision was required in my life, and the mountains and beaches were where I sought GOD’s response…
GOD’s Creation: The Virtues of the Honeybee
The delightful older gentleman’s eyes twinkled as he amazed us with the detail of God’s creation, the honeybee. He smoked them out and pulled out a honey-filled hive for us to observe. The honey drizzled deliciously into our mouths as we lifted bits of honeycomb to chew…
Litany For Japan and the Work of Prayer
Despite feeling overwhelmed though -the work of prayer is still the task at hand…Let us offer up cries for mercy to GOD together as families and church communities in our localities and particular places -for a world in need of redemption. Today I focus on Japan because it is most on my heart…
Learning From the Birds and Their Song In the Dark
Maybe these birds are the greatest of theologians- the most radical of saints – they know the secret of trusting in GOD’s faithfulness. If these birds can sing for joy between the envelope of night and day – can we not learn from them to sing in that in-between place when all seems dark but the clock says day has begun…
Joel Salatin | Food: The Cornerstone of Christian Credibility
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…
The Gulf Oil Spill and Creation’s Groaning
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…
The Book of Created Things: Reading the Gulf Oil Spill
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.”
Sawdust Resurrection
Four and a half miles from the end of our hike, we came across a gigantic pile of sawdust…this area had been clear cut and run through the mill. Now that history was mostly invisible except with careful observation…
People of Earth
We must again go back to the source. GOD made Adam from adamah and we must remember that we are both people of GOD’s breathe and people of the earth. We are called to cultivate, steward and renew…














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