Spring 2011
Here you’ll find the full versions of articles from the Spring 2011 issue of Flourish. Sign up for fresh Flourish content by email or RSS.
| Inside Flourish By Kendra Langdon Juskus, Managing Editor | What do we miss when creation goes missing? |
Features |
 A Flourish Interview with Nathan FosterThe son of spiritual discipline visionary Richard Foster talks about whether creation care is a spiritual discipline and how the mountains spread the Good News. |
 Coping with PlentyBy Jan Johnson | Self-indulgence in the plenty around us is “deadly” for us and creation. But what’s the antidote? |
Departments |
 Where We Live:Tending the Flock: Soil, Soul, and the Ministry of HOPE CSA By Zachary Hawkins | Church flocks benefit from the time their leaders spend down at the Hope CSA family farm. |
 The Flourishing Church:Wasting Nothing: A Baptist Church Finds a Winning Solution to High Energy Costs By Kendra Langdon Juskus | First Baptist Church Orlando cut over one million dollars in its utility costs and is now an EPA Congregations Award winner. |
 Global Community:Change and a Chance in El Campo By Kendra Langdon Juskus and Jennifer Ruppelt | Environmental innovations empower rural Nicaraguans to improve their communities’ health. |
| Sprouts Items of interest springing up around the creation care community. |
| Toolshed By Nancy Sleeth | How to spruce up your home and keep creation clean at the same time. |
Reviews |
| Book | Living in God’s Creation: Orthodox Perspectives on Ecology Reviewed by Scot F. Martin | Is creation care a new discussion? Not in the Orthodox church. What evangelicals can learn from a 2,000 year-old conversation. |
| Book | The Food Matters Cookbook Reviewed by Rachel Stone | “Sane eating” for people and planet. |
| Film | The Economics of Happiness Reviewed by John Murdock | A beautiful and moving, but incomplete, critique of globalization. |
Poetry |
| Two Poems By Abigail Carroll |
The Last Page |
 Ask the Animals, and They Will Teach YouBy Karen Swallow Prior | There is more to our favorite literary animal heroes than we might suspect. |
About Flourish Magazine
From recycling to resurrection, tree-planting to the Tree of Life, Flourish magazine provides helpful information and holy inspiration for the Christian creation care movement.
Flourish magazine is a online journal featuring today’s best, biblically-grounded, Christian thinking and inspiration on creation care; guidance for cutting through the static of environmental information; and meaningful ideas to help your church and your family find delight in God’s good creation. A premium, bound volume of Flourish’s “best-of” writing from the year is available annually to members and supporters.
