Flourish, Fall 2011 Five Questions For: Chris Elisara Chris Elisara is an energetic entrepreneur in the world of creation care education. He started the Creation Care Study Program in 1996 and still directs this environmental study abroad program that gives 60-70 students a year unparalleled academic and spiritual growth in the natural ecosystems of Belize [...]
Quotes
“The mistake is in thinking of the journey in terms of success at all…”
“And heaven and nature sing…”
“…there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before.”
“For the Sabbath is the counterpoint of living…”
John James Audubon questions whether we’re too blind to see the the beauty around us.
O God, we thank you for this universe, our great home; for its vastness and its riches, and for the manifoldness of the life which teems upon it and of which we are a part. We praise you for the arching sky and the blessed winds, for the driving clouds and the constellations on high. [...]
“Someone will say: ‘You worry about birds. Why not worry about people?’”
“We cannot carry on indefinitely under an economic system that pillages our resources, divides our communities, weakens our families, and compromises our character…”
William Wilberforce on one reason to keep Sabbath.
Why “nature” and “creation” are different, and what that difference demands of us.
“Who could have the courage to see it?”
The creation stories in Genesis 1 and 2, some of the most profound and evocative stories ever written, certainly don’t envisage humans tyrannizing creation. Try doing that to a garden,
Only one thing can be central to the spiritual discipline of simplicity, and what it is might surprise you.
