Winter 2011
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Inside Flourish by Kendra Langdon Juskus, Managing Editor | Thoughts on this issue. |
Features |
![]() by Lisa Graham McMinn | “We have abundance at our fingertips.” Do we have gratitude in abundance, too? |
![]() by Rusty Pritchard | Nearly seven billion people are bound to have an environmental impact on the planet, yet fears of overpopulation are overblown. Economics explains how elite culture gets the issue so wrong. |
Departments |
![]() Beyond the “Green” Commandments by Dave Timmer | One Washington State community fights the latest form of legalism. |
![]() Redemption by the Side of the Road by Andy Patton | The Crossing’s motivation for restoring a degraded piece of property was much more than just curb appeal. |
![]() An Education by Tim Høiland | A community in Costa Rica learns what helps and what hurts in the wake of environmental disaster. |
Sprouts Items of interest springing up around the creation care community. |
Reviews |
Book | Mere Environmentalism reviewed by Jim Jewell | A thoughtful and clarifying, but incomplete, search for merely Christian differentiation in the environmental movement. |
Book | The Family Dinner Table reviewed by Rachel Stone | Good food advice–for those who can afford it. |
Book | ents, elves, and eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien and Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis reviewed by Monika Hilder | Two books reveal what most of us missed in our favorite literary classics. |
Poetry |
Two Poems by Luci Shaw |
The Last Page |
![]() by Lindsey Howald Patton | “God: He’s just too much.” |
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