Creation Care Links (10/25)

October 25, 2011

Read an interview with Chris Elisara, founder of the Creation Care Study Program.

Find out what is happening in the world of creation care by reading “Fall 2011 Sprouts” from the Autumn issue of Flourish.

Chris Elisara is an energetic entrepreneur in the world of creation care education. He started the Creation Care Study Program in 1996 and still directs this environmental study abroad program that gives 60-70 students a year unparalleled academic and spiritual growth in the natural ecosystems of Belize and Elisara’s native New Zealand. Last year, with film producer John Paget and writer and educator Drew Ward, he began a Web series called American Makeover, which explores the problems suburban sprawl poses to ecosystems, health, and community, and some of the solutions.

Quotable Creation Care: Lyanda Lynn Haupt Describes a Real Naturalist

Author Lyanda Lynn Haupt describes the “everyday awareness” that underlies “effective and lasting conservation.”

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A Cape Town Commitment to Creation Care

The Lausanne Movement’s Cape Town Commitment gives its blessing to creation care.

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Weekly Re-Cap October 10-14

This week at Flourish find out what made one Bible-believing church take huge steps to care for creation, peruse a collection of creation care related links from around the Web, and read Joseph Sittler, author of Evocations of Grace, write about society’s “brutalizing rootlessness.”

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Quotable Creation Care: Joseph Sittler Thinks We Need Roots To Grow

Joseph Sittler writes about the dangers of society’s “brutalizing rootlessness.”

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Creation Care Links (10/11)

Peruse a collection of creation care related links from around the Web.

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The Bible Tells Us So: One Church’s Biblically Conservative Approach to Creation Care

What made this Bible-believing church start prayer gardens, energy audits, and a Creation Care Week? Believing the Bible, of course.

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Quotable Creation Care: Jon Pahl on the Desire to Acquire

Author Jon Pahl says short-term gratification might give us things to carry home, but leave us empty-handed.

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The Center for Environmental Leadership Comes to Buffalo

The new Center for Environmental Leadership breathes life into the creation care movement, and into the down-on-its-luck city of Buffalo, NY.

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Weekly Re-Cap September 26-30

This week at Flourish read author John Dyer on the impact of technology on our lives, peruse a collection of creation care links from around the Web, hear Dr. Rusty Pritchard share a story about cooking with his daughter and reflect on what we lose when our lives become too efficient, and read Henry David Thoreau on “cultivating simplicity.”

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Quotable Creation Care: Henry David Thoreau Cultivates Poverty like a Garden Herb

Henry David Thoreau agrees that the best things in life are free.

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Cooking Efficiently

By Dr. Rusty Pritchard Efficiency is not an end. It is a means to an end, but a dangerous one. Last Monday, I needed to get dinner made. My four-year-old daughter had a different agenda. She thought swinging and coloring were more important. But what she really wanted was attention. I think of swinging as [...]

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Creation Care Links (9/27)

Peruse a collection of creation care links from around the Web.

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