Spring 2011

Spring 2011

Here you’ll find the full versions of articles from the Spring 2011 issue of Flourish. Sign up for fresh Flourish content by email or RSS.

Inside Flourish By Kendra Langdon Juskus, Managing Editor | What do we miss when creation goes missing?

Features

A Flourish Interview with Nathan Foster The son of spiritual discipline visionary Richard Foster talks about whether creation care is a spiritual discipline and how the mountains spread the Good News.

Coping with Plenty By Jan Johnson | Self-indulgence in the plenty around us is “deadly” for us and creation. But what’s the antidote?

Departments

Where We Live: Tending the Flock: Soil, Soul, and the Ministry of HOPE CSA By Zachary Hawkins | Church flocks benefit from the time their leaders spend down at the Hope CSA family farm.

The Flourishing Church: Wasting Nothing: A Baptist Church Finds a Winning Solution to High Energy Costs By Kendra Langdon Juskus | First Baptist Church Orlando cut over one million dollars in its utility costs and is now an EPA Congregations Award winner.

Global Community: Change and a Chance in El Campo By Kendra Langdon Juskus and Jennifer Ruppelt | Environmental innovations empower rural Nicaraguans to improve their communities’ health.

Sprouts Items of interest springing up around the creation care community.

Toolshed By Nancy Sleeth | How to spruce up your home and keep creation clean at the same time.

Reviews

Book | Living in God’s Creation: Orthodox Perspectives on Ecology Reviewed by Scot F. Martin | Is creation care a new discussion? Not in the Orthodox church. What evangelicals can learn from a 2,000 year-old conversation.

Book | The Food Matters Cookbook Reviewed by Rachel Stone | “Sane eating” for people and planet.

Film | The Economics of Happiness Reviewed by John Murdock | A beautiful and moving, but incomplete, critique of globalization.

Poetry

Two Poems By Abigail Carroll

The Last Page

Ask the Animals, and They Will Teach You By Karen Swallow Prior | There is more to our favorite literary animal heroes than we might suspect.

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About Flourish Magazine

From recycling to resurrection, tree-planting to the Tree of Life, Flourish magazine provides helpful information and holy inspiration for the Christian creation care movement.

Flourish magazine is a online journal featuring today’s best, biblically-grounded, Christian thinking and inspiration on creation care; guidance for cutting through the static of environmental information; and meaningful ideas to help your church and your family find delight in God’s good creation. A premium, bound volume of Flourish’s “best-of” writing from the year is available annually to members and supporters.