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
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
Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, “I am running away!” “If you run away,” said his mother, “I will come along. Because our homeland is now far too hot and drought-ridden for our people…
Debra RienstraOctober 26, 2019
One of our conclusions is, people love the idea of lament more than the practice of it.
Debra RienstraOctober 25, 2019
Listen now In this episode, Christina Edmondson--Dean for Intercultural Student Development at Calvin University and co-host of the Truth’s Table podcast--reflects on the potential for refugia on college campuses. We also consider the virtues and difficulties of virtual refugia. For more background... Dr. Christina Edmondson…
Debra RienstraOctober 18, 2019
And here we were, camping out in the wilderness for the weekend with people fleeing the church of empire and searching for what we might call the church of refugia. They were looking for community, hope, and sustenance, a place of healing and resilience. Maybe…
Debra RienstraOctober 12, 2019
