Summer 2010

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Inside Flourish by Kendra Langdon Juskus, Managing Editor | Thoughts on this issue.

Features

Sprawling from Sea to Shining Sea: America’s need for a New Urbanism by Drew Ward | How is a nation glutted with suburbs shaping us and the environment for the worse? How can we re-imagine where we live for the better?

Earth in Art by Jennifer Lynn Haas | God’s presence in creation, as seen through the eyes and expertise of an artist.

The Global Dinner Table: How what we eat here impacts lives everywhere by Tim Schubert | Bringing scripture to bear on the economic, environmental, and social landscapes of a “simple” little thing like food.

Departments

Where We Live: From Famine to Feast: The story of Anathoth Community Garden by Fred Bahnson | After a deadly tragedy, one community turns a scene of bloodshed into a landscape of hope.

The Flourishing Church: Ecclesia Fights for Life on All Fronts by Lindsey Howald Patton | The Ecclesia church community in Houston takes “green living” beyond trends and into truth.

Sprouts Items of interest springing up around the creation care community.

Toolshed: A Summer Guide to Canning Tomatoes This step-by-step guide will help you savor summer’s brightest gems all year long.

Reviews

Film | Deep Down | The problems of coal mining come down from the mountains and into the daily lives of one embattled Appalachian town. – reviewed by Anna Jane Joyner

Film | Sweetgrass | A documentary of the fate the American West, Sweetgrass “brings you into the violence of creation on scopes both large and small.” — reviewed by Brian Watkins

Poetry

Here and In the Garden the Word Becomes Flesh by John Leax

The Last Page

The Edge of Enough by Tom Montgomery-Fate | “A worm bin seemed like a good way to learn something about what and how much we waste. At least that was the plan.”

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