“We have abundance at our fingertips.” How will we use it?
Flourish magazine
What’s inside this issue of Flourish magazine? To start, are fears over overpopulation overrated? Also, the important role of gratitude in justice, and an introduction of a new member to the Flourish team.
Don’t be deceived! Generosity is not as simple as swiping a credit card. Here’s how to really give from the heart.
Christians seeking guidance on living humanly in an increasingly technological world might look to…The Lord of the Rings?
We’ve been celebrating the end of the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but it’s too early to celebrate the end of the oil’s destruction in the Gulf. Karen Pritchard explains where it’s still lurking.
A climate change film by a scientist known for his skepticism. How could it possibly be the sequel to An Inconvenient Truth?
Rinsed with Gold, Endless, Walking the Fields By Robert Siegel Flourish magazine, Fall 2010 Let this day’s air praise the Lord— Rinsed with gold, endless, walking the fields, Blue and bearing the clouds like censers, Holding the sun like a single note Running through all things, a basso profundo Rousing the birds to an [...]
Flourish magazine, Fall 2010 Five Questions For: Gretchen Peck This summer Gretchen Peck became the coordinator of Renewal, a student-led creation care movement across Christian college campuses. She is based out of Minneapolis but grew up in upstate New York in a family prone to recycling and biking and a town known for food co-ops and [...]
The sanctity-of-human-life ethic is central to the Christian faith, but it’s still lacking something.
Why “flourish?”
By John Leax Flourish magazine, Summer 2010 Here Here is the place of order made by daily labor. Against bright sky, the house, limned by spruce and larch, grown old in weathered caring, stands white. Beyond its shadow, the garden lies down in rows stretched fondly on the earth. Forsythia and honeysuckle, lilac, lily, and [...]
Without bells and whistles or political agenda, Sweetgrass fulfills the purpose of a documentary with an unflinching and transcendent portrayal of life in the American wilderness.
Money or mountains? This is the debate many poor Appalachian communities must struggle through when a mountain top removal mine is proposed in their midst. The movie Deep Down captures their struggle with honesty and sensitivity and reminds us of our own dog in the fight.
By Christiana Peterson Flourish magazine, Summer 2010 Canning is a method of preserving food invented by a confectioner and brewer in 19th century France when the government offered money to anyone who could come up with a way to preserve large amounts of food for their armies. This method, which has remained largely unchanged since [...]
