Believing in the resurrection of Christ is a little bit easier when you’re standing in the middle of a garden. Which may help explain the long tradition of depicting Jesus as a gardener.
Debra RienstraApril 6, 2022
The birth of the child is the focal point of God’s communion with the whole of creation. This is the deep wisdom of the doctrine of incarnation: the person Jesus is the crucial stitch uniting heaven and earth, spiritual and physical, entirely and forever.
Debra RienstraDecember 25, 2021
We are observing the Season of Creation for the first time this year, and as is our custom, we’ve put together our own liturgy. I’d like to report on how it’s been going.
Debra RienstraSeptember 25, 2021
So now my four tomato plants are producing like mad, and I’m faced with the problem of what to do with all these tomatoes.
Debra RienstraJuly 31, 2021
Like most butterflies, monarchs specialize in one host plant: in their case, it’s milkweed. That’s their nursery. Accept no substitutes.
Debra RienstraJune 19, 2021
There’s something revelatory here, something we need to see about the nature of God beyond our systematic theologies and philosophical inquiries.
Debra RienstraApril 24, 2021
The ordinary stuff of the physical world, the very fundamentals of survival provided by God, are transformed through human art and through the blessing of the Spirit, and they become means of grace.
Debra RienstraJanuary 30, 2021
What does it mean, I wonder, to encounter a burning bush, flaming but not consumed, and hear nothing? Beauty manifests God, but what if God does not call your name out of the flames? Only silence. No appointment with destiny. You admire for a moment…
Debra RienstraOctober 31, 2020
