Fall 2010
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| Inside Flourish by Kendra Langdon Juskus, Managing Editor | Thoughts on this issue. |
Features |
 Environmental Ethics: Bringing Creation Care Down to Earthby David Gushee | The sanctity-of-human-life ethic is central to the Christian faith, but it’s still lacking something. |
 C.S. Lewis, Wendell Berry, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Spiritual Dangers of a Technological Mindsetby Matthew Dickerson | Christians seeking guidance on living humanly in an increasingly technological world might look to…The Lord of the Rings? |
Departments |
 Where We Live:State of the Gulf by Karen Pritchard | More than six months after the nation’s worst environmental disaster, are things going swimmingly in the Gulf of Mexico? |
 The Flourishing Church:A Rooted Church: Englewood Christian Church by Chris Smith | In the heart of Indianapolis, a church that knows what it’s talking about holds a conference on the future of food in the city. |
 Global Community:Sustaining Support for Rebuilding Haiti Right? by Joanna Pritchard | Rebuilding destroyed infrastructure must include repairing the ecosystems that sustain life and health. |
| Sprouts Items of interest springing up around the creation care community. |
| Toolshed: A Guide to Giving Abundantly Gifts that bring Christmas cheer to consumers and producers. |
Reviews |
| Book | Christians and Catastrophe | Be worried. Be very worried. – reviewed by Andy Patton |
| Film | Cool It | Cool It is faster-paced, funnier, and better-edited than An Inconvenient Truth. It may even be smarter.– reviewed by Rusty Pritchard |
Poetry |
| Rinsed with Gold, Endless, Walking the Fields by Robert Siegel |
The Last Page |
 Where is There Hope? Christian Faith at Home on Earthby Steven Bouma-Prediger | For ecological exiles like ourselves, where is the hope of home? |
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