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
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.
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.
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.
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
Can we enjoy the process of puzzling things out when we’re not sure, at the end of it, that there’s an answer?
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
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
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