Flourish magazine

A radical woman of faith and action, Denise Giardina defends the creation and the way of life she belongs to against mountaintop removal mining in West Viriginia.

“Shalom doesn’t begin once every last person is convinced they need to get on board. It begins with a few people planting gardens in a land at war. It begins with a field.”

Rootlessness, identity loss, and despair threaten today’s “ecological exiles.” Is there any hope of finding a home?

Trees: their absence leads to poverty, but their flourishing helps the rural poor of the world thrive.

“A worm bin seemed like a good way to learn something about what and how much we waste. At least that was the plan.”

“Our lives may be largely defined by what we keep and what we discard. Christ was abandoned on the cross, despised and rejected. Yet just because something is thrown away doesn’t mean that it wasn’t worth saving.”

Book | The Family Dinner

March 14, 2011

Good food advice–for those who can afford it.

A thoughtful and clarifying, but incomplete, search for merely Christian differentiation in the environmental movement.

An education: A Costa Rican community re-learns redevelopment in the wake of environmental disaster.

The Crossing’s motivation for restoring a degraded piece of property was much more than just curb appeal.

Environmental legalism is still legalism.

How To Fix a Food Desert

February 4, 2011

Food deserts are a growing problem in the U.S. The story of the Anathoth Community is one in which one church takes the call to creation care and justice seriously by starting a community garden for the residents of their community who did not have sufficient access to healthy food.

The Myth of Overpopulation

January 31, 2011

How the environmental movement has been duped by population advocates and how Christians can lend some clarity.

Two Poems

January 28, 2011

“Glory be to God for changes.”