Ever wonder how many species there are in the world? What the extinction rate “should” be? What it is now? Find the answers as Dr. Kyle Van Houtan weighs in on the truth about species loss and its causes.
Deep Down Things
Kelley Wampler shares her from experience as a homemaker, wife, and mother of three. She weighs in on how to invest in your kids faith, care for creation at home, and never lose sight of the glories of homemaking.
Dean Ohlman tells the story of the Gospel as a story of four trees: the Tree of Life, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the Cross, and the second Tree of Life in Revelation.
There is a connection between our knowledge and our ability to care for and appreciate things. As we know more of God’s creation we are better able to worship him for it. For today’s “Deep Down Things” we are revisiting biology class and studying trees in the hopes of learning a little bit more about the Lord through learning a bit more about his wonderful creation.
Margie Haack, Co-Director of Ransom Fellowship, reflects on the connections between two processes that can’t be rushed: Cooking and redemption.
In this interview Scott Sabin, executive director of Plant With Purpose, talks about why it is so important that poor communities have rich soil and how his organization goes about restoring land in impoverished places.
Architecture has an effect on people by what it says. It can speak of contemplation, beauty, modernity, cleanliness, or liveableness. Part of appreciating the aesthetics of places is being conscious of their affects on us.
Tom Rowley, Executive Director, A Rocha USA, is not a Luddite, but he does want to use technology in his home in such a way that builds his family up rather than the opposite. But its not easy. Rowley shares some answers he’s learned as he’s asked the question, “How do we use technology well?”
Pastor Joe Holland thinks your kids hear more than you think they do from the sermon, but what they will remember most of all is talking to Mommy and Daddy about it. Read his eight tips and get the conversation started.
Pastor and author, Tri Robinson, reflects on some lessons he has learned living on a self-sustaining homestead in Idaho about the challenges and rewards of living with the land rather than off of it.
Laura Truax reflects on lessons learned in five days of silence about Sabbath, unplugging and how technology-saturated our lives can become.
A deep-rooted understand of justice is vital to be able to think well about the complex issues of creation care. Professor Michael Sandel’s class “Justice: What’s the right thing to to do?” helps provide a philosophical grounding which may be useful to that end.
The slave trade on St. John USVI wrecked havoc on the landscape, but over time creation has healed itself. It is a testament to the fact that, though we can break the world, it is not wholly broken, and God can always bring healing to the earth.
By Andy Patton [Ed. note: This article is part of our series of weekly reflections, called Deep Down Things, published on Wednesdays.] Recently, in preparation for a lecture I was giving, I tried to make a list of every piece of technology I came across in a single day. The list got very long, very quickly. [...]
