by Cindy Crosby [Ed. note: This article is part of our series of weekly reflections, called Deep Down Things, published on Wednesdays.] To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few. – Emily Dickinson Surely, it is [...]
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Community Supported Agriculture: One of the easiest ways to support small, local farmers. Here’s how!
Eat local: “Not as an act of hatred against grocery chains or an act of defiance against the commercial food industry in the US but as an act of character, of learning and of growing.”
“We can easily elevate simple living to the point that it becomes as obsessive and unhealthy as a lifestyle of uncritical acquisitiveness.”
It’s true that the stuff we collect during our lives is, at its best, useful or sentimental, and, at its worst, purposeless and wasteful. Still, things do matter. The resurrection of Jesus tells us why.
“As one Haitian put it, ‘We have lost what we didn’t even have.’”
Creation care isn’t only about big landscapes and vast wildernesses. We meet God in the particularity of tomatoes and radishes and cucumbers, too.
“We are dissatisfied with wanting, tasting and getting…” What is a better way?
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
The front porch rises again! And it extends further back into history and further ahead into the future than you would have ever thought.
A long life of faith and stewardship is rocked and disturbed by Wendell Berry’s admonitions in “The Gift of Good Land.”
Today’s response to Wendell Berry’s essay “The Gift of Good Land” comes from Christian Buckley, author of the forthcoming book Humanitarian Jesus: Social Justice and the Cross. “The Gift of Good Land,” was published 30 years ago, and we reprinted it in the Fall 2009 issue of Flourish Magazine to celebrate Mr. Berry’s work, but [...]
Stop wishing for the perfection of Eden! Turning our perspective instead toward the Promised Land helps us understand how to function in this creation as the messed up folks we are.
Think “saving the earth” is overwhelming? You’re right. We live in neighborhoods and, Wendell Berry argues, must nurture those small parcels of earth before we can think any bigger.
