I propose that Advent is the time when we are allowed—even encouraged—to be honest about our disappointment, our sadness, our cynicism.
Debra RienstraDecember 10, 2022
I preach, I teach, I write, and so on, for that purpose: to hope that through my puny efforts God can help to rouse the church community. That’s what I think the church needs the most, is to be roused related to our social issues.
Debra RienstraNovember 13, 2022
What we mean when we say “climate resilience” is not simply the ability to bounce back after climate impacts and disasters, but the ability to bounce forward. So seeing these moments we’re in of climate breakdown not simply as a time to rebuild what has…
Debra RienstraNovember 6, 2022
You’ve exchanged friendly hellos while fetching the mail, and now you wonder: who are these alien beings?
Debra RienstraNovember 5, 2022
I can’t step back anymore. I’m committed. I’m going to go to the end with this. And I’m just going to let the results be in God’s hand.
Debra RienstraOctober 30, 2022
If we are to be faithful, we must address the emergent moral challenges. What could be more of an emergent moral challenge than climate change?
Debra RienstraOctober 16, 2022
A church of refugia will be one that is introspective enough to admit, to confess, to lament, to recognize that complicity; to seek then to open up to the work of the Spirit to convict of truth and to bring change, to change those hearts…
Debra RienstraOctober 9, 2022
We want to create a shared space and curriculum through which religious leaders from a wide, wide range of wisdoms will produce and share knowledge with one another and train to lead their communities. And this is all rooted in the conviction that we can,…
Debra RienstraOctober 2, 2022
Here are some recent gems I would commend to you. If you can make it through the serious theology, you’ll get to a couple great novels at the end.
Debra RienstraOctober 1, 2022
