How to Make Sundays Screen Free

How to avoid spending more time on screen-related activities that put us at risk for obesity, depression, and violent behavior.

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The Ethics of Elfland

By Andy Patton [Ed. note: This article is part of our series of weekly reflections, called Deep Down Things, published on Wednesdays.] When I attempt to grow plants I have the nasty habit of making my plants conform to my notions of beauty by plucking a leaf here, pruning a stem there. unfortunately, shortly afterward, they [...]

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Starting Today: EPA’s National Building Competition

Today marks the opening for entries into the EPA’s second annual National Building Competition. Essentially, it is a contest between buildings (including churches) to see who can save the most energy. Competitors will “work off the waste” through improvements in energy efficiency with help from EPA’s Energy Star program. The biggest loser is the winner. Last [...]

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Walt Whitman and Wonder

I found myself thinking recently about something Denis Haack said at a L’abri Conference: “If you are too busy for wonder, you are too busy.” I find it so easy to be practical in my daily life. I drive my car. I breath the air. I am awakened by the sun in my window in the morning. I [...]

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Good Comes from a Grateful Heart

“We have abundance at our fingertips.” How will we use it?

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Ann Cooper: Lunch Lady on a Mission

Chef Ann Cooper is trying to change the way kids eat school lunch. If your school cafeterias were anything like mine there wasn’t a whole lot of difference between getting your food from the cafeteria and getting your food from a gas station. They feature mostly the same fare: prepackaged microwaveable food products like chips [...]

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Tri Robinson on Creation Care in a Church Setting

At QIdeas.org Pastor and author, Tri Robinson, writes about his, and his church’s, journey to towards caring for creation: “In all my years of ministry, I never saw this coming. Caring for the environment was a value I rediscovered through a series of conversations and hours spent seeking God about what my response as a Christian [...]

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The God of Fertility

Recently I was staying at a friends house in the suburbs and it was a slow morning and it felt great outside so I went out on the porch and spent some time just staring. It is a new suburb, one that is built where the developers think the town will eventually be, meaning that [...]

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Inside Flourish

What’s inside this issue of Flourish magazine? To start, are fears over overpopulation overrated? Also, the important role of gratitude in justice, and an introduction of a new member to the Flourish team.

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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

Ever wonder where your t-shirt came from? If anyone was hurt in the making of it? If it contributed to the injustice in the world? These are pertinent questions as we think through what it means to be committed to justice in a broken world. Pietra Rivoli, author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the [...]

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Taking Creation Care One Month at a Time

Does “Save the earth” sound like more than you can handle? Creation care is supposed to be a delight. Take it one month at a time.

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What Does it Mean to be Human?

By Andy Patton [Ed. note: This article is part of our series of weekly reflections, called Deep Down Things, published on Wednesdays.] The phrase “human nature” has negative connotations. When someone says “that’s just human nature” they are usually talking about something sad. When someone says, “I am just a human” they are usually excusing their [...]

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Wendell Berry: Community Brings Flourishing

Wendell Berry writes in “Men and Women in Search of Common Ground” of how community can bring trials and suffering, but it is in those very trials that our good hope lies. His says that binding ourselves with the closest relational ties in life offers us the only kind of freedom that has the possibility [...]

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International Day of Prayer for Creation

Prayer doesn’t bring revival. It is revival. To that end Renewal, a student-led sister organization, is sponsoring an international day of prayer for creation on February 2, 2011. This year’s theme is “Prayer for Environmental Justice.” Get involved by signing up on Renewal’s website.

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