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Not Consumed

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

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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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

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Not Consumed

Farm Refugia and Church on the Edges

Shrub Whispering

No One Will Make Them Afraid: The Arborist’s Bible

Riding the Wind

Meanwhile Messes, Meanwhile Graces

Conference of the Creatures

Cultivating Ecological Virtues: An Interview with Steven Bouma-Prediger

Thirty Days, Thirty Books

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

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