http://flourishonline.org/2009/08/a-flourish-response-to-derrick-jensen/ Reviving Lives and Landscapes Fri, 11 May 2012 22:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://flourishonline.org/2009/08/a-flourish-response-to-derrick-jensen/comment-page-1/#comment-1875 Reusable Bags & Stainless Steel Bottles: Do our personal changes matter at all? | Fake Plastic Fish Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:43:35 +0000 http://flourishonline.org/?p=944#comment-1875 [...] Kendra Langdon Juskus from Flourish criticizes Jensen’s article from a religious perspective, and questions his assumptions about human beings’ potential for both acts of creation as well as destruction. And she too makes the connection between our personal actions and the greater good they can lead to: I do not read my Bible simply in order to feel at peace or pleased about my day. I read my Bible so that my small, personal disciplines may inform how I interact with others, and how I participate in God’s plan for his world. A similar trajectory may be the culmination of personal disciplines like taking shorter showers in a more effective act like restoring a watershed with other conservationists. But to say that small steps are meaningless is to dissuade people not only from those small, individual disciplines, but also from the greater fruits they may bear. [...] [...] Kendra Langdon Juskus from Flourish criticizes Jensen’s article from a religious perspective, and questions his assumptions about human beings’ potential for both acts of creation as well as destruction. And she too makes the connection between our personal actions and the greater good they can lead to: I do not read my Bible simply in order to feel at peace or pleased about my day. I read my Bible so that my small, personal disciplines may inform how I interact with others, and how I participate in God’s plan for his world. A similar trajectory may be the culmination of personal disciplines like taking shorter showers in a more effective act like restoring a watershed with other conservationists. But to say that small steps are meaningless is to dissuade people not only from those small, individual disciplines, but also from the greater fruits they may bear. [...]

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