Margie Haack, Co-Director of Ransom Fellowship, reflects on the connections between two processes that can’t be rushed: Cooking and redemption.
Deep Down Things
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.
Though God could theoretically redeem the world instantaneously, he chose to restore it by the long process of history. In our device-filled world it is easy to forget that faster is not always better. Sometimes restoring processes in our lives—like roasting our own coffee, for example—can remind us of the process-filled journey on which God is taking us.
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.
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. [...]
By Andy Patton [Ed. note: This article is part of our series of weekly reflections, called Deep Down Things, published on Wednesdays.] The phrase “human nature” has negative connotations. When someone says “that’s just human nature” they are usually talking about something sad. When someone says, “I am just a human” they are usually excusing their [...]
God sees the world as a good in its own right, not as our expendable playground. If that is true, then part of Christian maturity is coming to care for what the Lord cares about, namely, the earth.
Here are some ideas that have been benchmarks to me in my own journey to see the glory of the Lord in the earth he has made…
Proving that small decisions can be profound.
From the shoot of a stump comes hope that fills the whole earth.
Flourish president Rusty Pritchard writes from Port-au-Prince, detailing the tragedy of Haitian politics in the time of cholera, and where hope can still be found.
