The son of spiritual discipline visionary Richard Foster talks about whether creation care is a spiritual discipline and how the mountains spread the Good News.
environmental stewardship
Sometimes it seems like everything shakes down out of the first three chapters of Genesis. In the book of Genesis the Bible presents the story of our first parents that is packed with meaning. In his essay, “What Happened to Dominion?” Dean Ohlman writing at Wonder of Creation takes a slow walk through those first [...]
Does “Save the earth” sound like more than you can handle? Creation care is supposed to be a delight. Take it one month at a time.
According to the EPA the average American produces about 4.4 pounds of trash a day, 29 pounds per week, 1,600 pounds a year. There are lots of ways to reduce that number that we’ve talked about at Flourish before such as composting, recycling, etc. but here is a new one: Lisa Hernandez tackles the waste problem by treating [...]
Good magazine regularly features infographics that try to present complicated data in aesthetic and understandable ways. Here are five of the best ones about the environment and topics related to caring for Creation. America’s Appetite for Energy:
For some reason the new year makes us want to change our lives. Call it a quirk of the circular calendar. We join the gym, swear off sweets, promise to call our fathers more. One wonders, if the year were a line and we never came back to the same month, how we would ever [...]
Proving that small decisions can be profound.
The routine of the garden year is split open by transcendent surprises.
Instead of wondering “What can I get for the person who has everything?” this Christmas, maybe it’s time to ask a different question…
“Someone will say: ‘You worry about birds. Why not worry about people?’”
“But as we have come to rely more and more on the products of agriculture rather than the freely available food of the creation, most of us have ceased to take advantage of the bounty of fall. This is a mistake.”
Why “nature” and “creation” are different, and what that difference demands of us.
