I hate to say this, but we’re going to have to talk about economics in church.
Debra RienstraMay 27, 2023
Best-selling memoirs tend to tell big, dramatic stories—getting sober, the messy divorce, the cancer diagnosis, the series of lovers, living through war, recovering from abuse, the woes of being famous. For most of us, the challenge is to perceive the contours of our ordinary lives…
Debra RienstraJanuary 21, 2023
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
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
People who are in power want to silence the prophetic voice and the prophetic function of churches. But that is actually one of the reasons the church came into existence in the first place——was to challenge the power structures that victimized and profited and oppressed…
Debra RienstraSeptember 18, 2022
For UK Christian leaders, the challenges are fraught and puzzling: how to steward property, how to do church in a changing cultural context. The heavy questions of how many will remain faithful, and what faithfulness now means.
Debra RienstraJune 4, 2021
We want people to see the farm as a place where they can be involved. Not only by volunteering if they want to, but also by learning to grow their own food in their own backyard.
Debra RienstraApril 3, 2021
To be human is to be spiritual, to be limited, to be vulnerable. And I think in that we reflect the vulnerability of our Creator.
Debra RienstraOctober 17, 2020
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
What is the podcast all about? The Refugia Podcast explores how Christian spirituality and practice must adapt to prepare for life on a “tough, new planet.” Refugia (re-FU-jia) is a biological term describing places of shelter where life endures in times of crisis, such as…
Debra RienstraMay 1, 2020
