Debra Rienstra, Author at Debra Rienstra

Farm Refugia and Church on the Edges

People were doing this. Churches were organizing community gardens and small farms, trying to combine faith practice, community, discipleship, health, justice. Healing land and community at once, reconnecting faith to place.

Debra RienstraSeptember 19, 2020

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Adventures in Face-to-Face Learning: A Week in Lists

I’m paying now, hiking up a very steep learning curve as I try to get back in the game. The game, of course, has changed.

Debra RienstraSeptember 5, 2020

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Pious Petunia Copes with COVID Quarantining

For all the complaints about how exhausting Zoom meetings are, they do offer fresh opportunities to bond with your coworkers—or get revenge on them, as needed.

Debra RienstraAugust 22, 2020

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Shrub Whispering

Questions of what more-than-human creatures are worth, what they mean, what is their ultimate value—these questions become more urgent as the species extinction crisis accelerates.

Debra RienstraAugust 8, 2020

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No One Will Make Them Afraid: The Arborist’s Bible

One can compare one’s beloved to apple, palm, pomegranate, or incense trees. And it’s clear that all the good stuff happens under apple trees.

Debra RienstraJuly 11, 2020

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Riding the Wind

At one point, Trevor was down below looking for his GPS, foolishly leaving Ron and me in charge. Well, here comes a gust of wind. We immediately started rounding up and almost burying the rail.

Debra RienstraJune 13, 2020

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Meanwhile Messes, Meanwhile Graces

Meanwhile, healing takes a long time, and the first stages look like a mess. The grasses are scruffy, the trees old and some dying. Windthrow and snags are a key part of a habitat in equilibrium anyway, but seeing them on a golf course makes…

Debra RienstraMay 16, 2020

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Podcast Basics for Guests

What is the podcast all about? The Refugia Podcast explores how Christian spirituality and practice must adapt to prepare for life on a “tough, new planet.” Refugia (re-FU-jia) is a biological term describing places of shelter where life endures in times of crisis, such as…

Debra RienstraMay 1, 2020

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Six Letters, Starts with a P

Can we enjoy the process of puzzling things out when we’re not sure, at the end of it, that there’s an answer?

Debra RienstraMay 1, 2020

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Conference of the Creatures

“Creatures, our free forty minutes are almost up. So I just want to encourage you all and review our mission objectives. It’s been great to have some relief from the humans for a while, but this is all for a bigger purpose."

Debra RienstraApril 18, 2020

Debra Rienstra

Farm Refugia and Church on the Edges

Adventures in Face-to-Face Learning: A Week in Lists

Pious Petunia Copes with COVID Quarantining

Shrub Whispering

No One Will Make Them Afraid: The Arborist’s Bible

Riding the Wind

Meanwhile Messes, Meanwhile Graces

Podcast Basics for Guests

Six Letters, Starts with a P

Conference of the Creatures

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