Reviving Lives and Landscapes

The Real Earth Day

by Rusty Pritchard My friends know that I’m ambivalent about April 22. A handful of activists declared it Earth Day in 1970, and now it is one of the few “holidays” of wholly secular origin. It’s a confusing day for many people, because pondering the Earth and its benefits elicits feelings of gratitude. Unrooted in [...]

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Quotable Creation Care: A Prayer of Thanksgiving from Walter Rauschenbusch

O God, we thank you for this universe, our great home; for its vastness and its riches, and for the manifoldness of the life which teems upon it and of which we are a part. We praise you for the arching sky and the blessed winds, for the driving clouds and the constellations on high. [...]

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Poetry by Robert Siegel

Rinsed with Gold, Endless, Walking the Fields By Robert Siegel Flourish magazine, Fall 2010 Let this day’s air praise the Lord— Rinsed with gold, endless, walking the fields, Blue and bearing the clouds like censers, Holding the sun like a single note Running through all things, a basso profundo Rousing the birds to an [...]

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Giving the Good Life: A Conscientious Christmas Catalog

Instead of wondering “What can I get for the person who has everything?” this Christmas, maybe it’s time to ask a different question…

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Twilight on the Prairie: Creativity

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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Quotable Creation Care: Thomas Merton Explains Our Destruction

“Someone will say: ‘You worry about birds. Why not worry about people?’”

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Sprouts: Items of interest springing up in the creation care community

Flourish magazine, Fall 2010 Five Questions For: Gretchen Peck This summer Gretchen Peck became the coordinator of Renewal, a student-led creation care movement across Christian college campuses. She is based out of Minneapolis but grew up in upstate New York in a family prone to recycling and biking and a town known for food co-ops and [...]

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