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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

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Biblical Quarantines: A Survey

What I’m saying is that even if you are now cooped up in the house with small, rambunctious children who behave like monkeys, things could be worse.

Debra RienstraMarch 21, 2020

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From Fake News to Civic Glue: Media Trends and Imagining News as a Community Asset

Our worry about fake news is more corrosive to our trust in media and in institutions than actual fake content has been. We wonder if we can trust anything we see.

Debra RienstraMarch 7, 2020

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Cultivating Ecological Virtues: An Interview with Steven Bouma-Prediger

We must increase our capacity for and interest in virtues and their formation, especially in this time of climate crisis, not succumb to a belief that “Oh well, there is little interest in being just or courageous, so I guess this business of virtue ethics…

Debra RienstraFebruary 22, 2020

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Pious Petunia [Hearts] U

t’s time once again to welcome guest blogger and advice columnist Pious Petunia, offering timely wisdom and incisively soothing commentary on modern romance.

Debra RienstraFebruary 8, 2020

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Thirty Days, Thirty Books

The guiding question for my reading is this: how will our spirituality (and our churches) need to change in order to survive the unprecedented challenges ahead, particularly the climate crisis? Here’s what I’m learning so far.

Debra RienstraJanuary 25, 2020

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Everything Causes a Scintillation: Review of Robert Macfarlane’s Underland, Lost Words, and Spell Songs

Macfarlane’s journeys, remarkable as much for the philosophical and emotional strain as for the physical rigors they demanded, uncover what underlands mean to us: in these hidden worlds, we shelter what we treasure, dispose of what we fear, and coax the earth to yield what…

Debra RienstraJanuary 11, 2020

Debra Rienstra

Meanwhile Messes, Meanwhile Graces

Podcast Basics for Guests

Six Letters, Starts with a P

Conference of the Creatures

Biblical Quarantines: A Survey

From Fake News to Civic Glue: Media Trends and Imagining News as a Community Asset

Cultivating Ecological Virtues: An Interview with Steven Bouma-Prediger

Pious Petunia [Hearts] U

Thirty Days, Thirty Books

Everything Causes a Scintillation: Review of Robert Macfarlane’s Underland, Lost Words, and Spell Songs

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