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Refugia Podcast

Episode 16 Kites and Kingfishers: Ruth Harvey on the Iona Community and Emerging Patterns

We need to meet in each other's homes, sharing our questions and our queries about biblical stories, sharing hospitality with one another, sharing refuge with one another. And it's from those place that the church will be renewed.

Debra RienstraOctober 10, 2020

Refugia Podcast

Episode 15 Momentum into the Next Thing: Bill McKibben on Fighting Overwhelming Odds and Praying Through Mental Static

Climate activist Bill McKibben joins us to talk about human solidarity and hope.

Debra RienstraOctober 3, 2020

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Horizons

On V-E Day, they went to the beach.

Debra RienstraOctober 3, 2020

Refugia Podcast

Episode 14 Sacramental Cats and Hungry Deer: Dave Koetje on Refugia Amid COVID

Dave Koetje joins us once again to kick off season two!

Debra RienstraSeptember 26, 2020

Michigan nature spirituality

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

Pious Petunia silly

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

climate change nature spirituality theology

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

nature theology

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

memoir Michigan nature

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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Episode 16 Kites and Kingfishers: Ruth Harvey on the Iona Community and Emerging Patterns

Episode 15 Momentum into the Next Thing: Bill McKibben on Fighting Overwhelming Odds and Praying Through Mental Static

Horizons

Episode 14 Sacramental Cats and Hungry Deer: Dave Koetje on Refugia Amid COVID

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

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