Spring 2010
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| Inside Flourish by Kendra Langdon Juskus, Managing Editor | Thoughts on this issue. |
Features |
 Christ vs. Consumerism: Choosing Contentment in a Commercialized Worldby Matthew Sleeth| “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.” |
 Skeptics, Cynics, and New York Times Bestsellersby Jonathan Merritt | Combating “faction” about environmental stewardship with the truth of God’s Word. [We're sorry, but this content is no longer available.] |
Departments |
 Where We Live:Mountaintop Removal Mining: Fighting for the Mountains in God’s Country by Jason Howard | Coal mine disasters, species destruction, illness from polluted water … These things happen in our own country, but they don’t have to. |
 The Flourishing Church:Transforming a Church Yard, One Blade of Grass at a Time by Scot F. Martin Trinity Covenant Church, in Livonia, Michigan, defeats its “evil turf-monster.” |
 Global Community:What is an Environmental Missionary? by Lowell Bliss | “Environment is nothing more than ‘that which surrounds the people we love, the people for whom Christ died.’” |
| Sprouts Items of interest springing up around the creation care community. |
| Toolshed: Eating in Season How do I know when it’s OK to eat strawberries? How do I cook a kohlrabi? Answers to these and other questions you thought you’d never ask in this issue’s Toolshed. |
Reviews |
| Book | The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky | Culinary revelations from Depression-era America provide recipes for squirrel stew and some insight into the eating habits of today. — reviewed by Kendra Langdon Juskus |
| Book | Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer | Uncomfortable truths served medium-rare; side of humor. — reviewed by Ben DeVries |
Poetry |
| Peonies and Resilience by Debra Rienstra |
The Last Page |
| I See You: Reflections on Avatar and the Importance of People and Place by Steven Garber | “If we casually walk away from people and place, we lose something crucial to our humanity—so be careful about that.” |
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