Glacial erratics and other disruptions
Seeing a huge boulder, a “glacial erratic,” on a walk through a botanical garden commands our attention. What is transforming your surroundings, causing you to wonder and ask new questions?
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Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith
In this excerpt from the prologue of his new book, writer Fred Bahnson recounts his visits with four different faith communities -- Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal and Jewish -- to explore the connection between feeding the spirit and feeding the body.
Will Samson: Christian hope for the environment
Caring for the earth is part of the gospel mission, and the Seminary Stewardship Alliance hopes to create a new generation of Christian leaders instilled with that belief, says its executive director.
Matthew Sleeth answers: What does sabbath have to do with caring for the earth?
Observing sabbath can help save the planet, says a physician who gave up his medical career to devote himself to spreading the gospel of creation care.
How to navigate institutional decline
What makes the difference between a forest that declines then renews and one that declines and dies? The planned burn.
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Elevation Burger: How do you change a flawed institution?
Hans and April Hess, founders of the Elevation Burger restaurant chain, offer some tips on how to change an organizational model without rejecting it altogether.
Samuel Wells: Let Earth and heaven agree
Why should Christians care about the fate of Earth? Because cherishing creation is the way we show God our gratitude, the way we humbly acknowledge our creatureliness, and an important way in which we worship, says the former dean of Duke Chapel.
Beyond belief
If action is the goal for religious communities on energy issues, then belief is not enough, writes the executive director of GreenFaith in an excerpt from 'Sacred Acts,' a new book on the church and climate change.
Claudio Oliver among the chickens at Casa da Videira. Photo courtesy of Claudio Oliver
Fred Bahnson: Living abundantly
The co-author of a new book on reconciliation with the land reflects on a Brazilian community that models “abundant kingdom homesteading.”
Norman Wirzba: Godly gardening
In this excerpt from “Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating,” a Duke Divinity professor argues that our work as Christians is to develop into godly gardeners, who witness to the life-creating presence of God in the world.