You may be surprised to learn that I am of royal blood. I’m serious. Through my father’s side, I can now trace an ancestral line back to Edward I, king of England.
Debra RienstraDecember 28, 2019
We've aired 12 episodes over the last few months, so it's time to figure out what we've learned. I guess we could call this a final exam day.
Debra RienstraDecember 6, 2019
The thing that I learned from my time working at the Justice Department is that good policy and making good policy takes time. It takes thoughtfulness. It takes deliberation. It's not crafted in late-night tweets.
Debra RienstraNovember 29, 2019
Refugia are places where we are content to be small for a while. To wait, to be quiet, to practice simple virtues like hospitality and empathy. To build capacity on a small scale to prepare us for regrowth.
Debra RienstraNovember 23, 2019
You're at the intersection there of sky and light and water and earth. You're in the four elements; they're right there at the shore with you. And I think that kind of magic is what has always drawn people here.
Debra RienstraNovember 22, 2019
You just do the next thing that's possible to do and you hope that what that does is it grows into something that will live.
Debra RienstraNovember 15, 2019
Maybe this is why my favorite songs on the album are the most melancholy.
Debra RienstraNovember 9, 2019
Episode 9 Keep All the Pieces: Tim Van Deelen on Wildlife Conservation and the Ghost of Aldo Leopold
It's... loss. It really is. It's the sense that we are losing our biological richness. It's disappearing before our eyes. And if there are people that care about it, within a generation it becomes a memory, in the next generation it becomes an abstraction.
Debra RienstraNovember 8, 2019
Journalist and recent seminary grad Jeff Chu ponders the intersection of theology and farming, then describes the Evolving Faith Conference and other places of healing and fresh imagination for people who are, for whatever reason, feeling on the margins of the church.
Debra RienstraNovember 1, 2019
