Inside Flourish

The pursuit of happiness: The Spring issue of Flourish magazine features Jonathan Merritt, Matthew Sleeth, Steven Garber and others exploring what about stewardship makes us truly happy.

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A Church Yard Butterfly Garden Invites Wings into Worship

A butterfly garden is one of the easiest gardens to start and keep up–and one of the most rewarding!

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The “Other” Environmental Crisis

Think the world’s biggest environmental problems are overpopulation and climate change? Think again.

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Denise Giardina: Fighting for the Mountains in God’s Country

A radical woman of faith and action, Denise Giardina defends the creation and the way of life she belongs to against mountaintop removal mining in West Viriginia.

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Toolshed: Eat What’s in Season; Eat What’s Delicious

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 about seasonal eating in this issue’s Toolshed.

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How Your Church Can Help Shelter Animals Find Their Way Home

Animals end up in shelters for a variety of reasons, but not all of them make it out. Here’s how your church can help get more happy, healthy shelter pets adopted!

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Stuck in the Oil Spill: Lamenting Our Way of Life

Calling all Christians to lament the role we’ve played in the oil spill. But lament isn’t just about sorrow; it’s also about hope and change.

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I See You: Reflections on “Avatar” and the Importance of People and Place

In watching “Avatar,” Steven Garber discovers a warning: “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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Two Poems for Spring by Debra Rienstra

Two poems from poet Debra Rienstra on the tenderness and determination of spring. “…this keeper/ of unlikely things, tender of promises/ more than fulfilled.”

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Right at Home: Building Church Partnerships with Local Nature Preserves

Every step of stewardship helps strengthen and nurture the earth’s biodiversity by protecting and cultivating the abundance of created life, but a particularly helpful step that your church family can take locally is to develop a partnership with a local nature preserve.

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Praying Confidently in the Midst of Disaster

How should Christians pray when we are helpless in the presence of environmental disasters like the Gulf Coast oil spill? Don’t start with the disaster, or with us. Start with God.

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What is an Environmental Missionary?

Shovel in one hand. Bible in the other. That’s environmental missions.

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Three Steps to a Hosting a Plant Swap at Church!

Bring a plant, get a new plant! A plant swap is an easy (and cheap!) way to build community with others from outside of your church by stewarding God’s creation together.

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Now Available at Your Local Famer’s Market: Apples with Character

Eat local: “Not as an act of hatred against grocery chains or an act of defiance against the commercial food industry in the US but as an act of character, of learning and of growing.”

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