We've aired 12 episodes over the last few months, so it's time to figure out what we've learned. I guess we could call this a final exam day.
Debra RienstraDecember 6, 2019
Refugia are places where we are content to be small for a while. To wait, to be quiet, to practice simple virtues like hospitality and empathy. To build capacity on a small scale to prepare us for regrowth.
Debra RienstraNovember 23, 2019
You're at the intersection there of sky and light and water and earth. You're in the four elements; they're right there at the shore with you. And I think that kind of magic is what has always drawn people here.
Debra RienstraNovember 22, 2019
You just do the next thing that's possible to do and you hope that what that does is it grows into something that will live.
Debra RienstraNovember 15, 2019
Episode 9 Keep All the Pieces: Tim Van Deelen on Wildlife Conservation and the Ghost of Aldo Leopold
It's... loss. It really is. It's the sense that we are losing our biological richness. It's disappearing before our eyes. And if there are people that care about it, within a generation it becomes a memory, in the next generation it becomes an abstraction.
Debra RienstraNovember 8, 2019
Journalist and recent seminary grad Jeff Chu ponders the intersection of theology and farming, then describes the Evolving Faith Conference and other places of healing and fresh imagination for people who are, for whatever reason, feeling on the margins of the church.
Debra RienstraNovember 1, 2019
One of our conclusions is, people love the idea of lament more than the practice of it.
Debra RienstraOctober 25, 2019
Listen now In this episode, Christina Edmondson--Dean for Intercultural Student Development at Calvin University and co-host of the Truth’s Table podcast--reflects on the potential for refugia on college campuses. We also consider the virtues and difficulties of virtual refugia. For more background... Dr. Christina Edmondson…
Debra RienstraOctober 18, 2019
