Reviving Lives and Landscapes

Earth Day and the Christian Life

“Earth Day, every day!” is one popular environmental rallying cry. Christians take it even further.

The Front Porch and the Garden

Does an evening on the front porch sound heavenly? There may be more than one reason that this architectural interface between the public and private reminds us of Paradise.

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Cultivating Community: Getting the Most out of the Hope for Creation Simulcast

When the first creation care simulcast–happening next Wednesday–is over, how can you keep the conversation going in your church?

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Keeping up with the Joneses: Battling simplicity envy

“We can easily elevate simple living to the point that it becomes as obsessive and unhealthy as a lifestyle of uncritical acquisitiveness.”

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Cultivating Community: If you Build a Bird House, the Birds Will Come

Does your church want to care for creation in a way that is easy, inexpensive, and still important? Build a bird house–or a few–to encourage love for and protection of God’s creatures.

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Resurrection Matters: Easter’s Promise in Flesh and Blood, Soil and Water

It’s true that the stuff we collect during our lives is, at its best, useful or sentimental, and, at its worst, purposeless and wasteful. Still, things do matter. The resurrection of Jesus tells us why.

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Christ vs. Consumerism: Choosing Contentment in a Commercialized World

“Our lives may be largely defined by what we keep and what we discard. Christ was abandoned on the cross, despised and rejected. Yet just because something is thrown away doesn’t mean that it wasn’t worth saving.”

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

New books by Matthew Sleeth, Scott Sabin, and Tracey Bianchi; what’s most important to us about the places we live; and the depth of Not One Sparrow’s Ben DeVries’ care for animals, all in this Flourish magazine’s Sprouts column.

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Lent in Haiti: A First-Hand Account of Hope after Devastation

“As one Haitian put it, ‘We have lost what we didn’t even have.’”

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Book | The Wild Marsh by Rick Bass

Sometimes creation needs love more than it needs an advocate.

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Gardening with God

Creation care isn’t only about big landscapes and vast wildernesses. We meet God in the particularity of tomatoes and radishes and cucumbers, too.

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Cultivating Community: “Just Drinking” at the Church Coffee Hour

Fair trade, organic, shade grown, church-going, college-educated … how many adjectives does our coffee need before it’s OK to drink? And is it possible to drink it at church? Yes!

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Pursuit of Happiness Spectacularly Unsuccessful in Modern America

Nigerians are poorer, and happier, than Americans. Paraplegics are happier than lottery-winners. So when we abuse creation to make money, what good is it doing anyone?

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