Technology: A Day in the Life

By Andy Patton [Ed. note: This article is part of our series of weekly reflections, called Deep Down Things, published on Wednesdays.] Recently, in preparation for a lecture I was giving, I tried to make a list of every piece of technology I came across in a single day. The list got very long, very quickly. [...]

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Tim Keller: Can Faith Be Green?

Pastor Tim Keller teaches on the many connections between creation care and Christianity. He says that we haven’t delved deeply enough into the resources present within Christianity and applied them to the call to care for the earth.

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Beyond the “Green” Commandments

Environmental legalism is still legalism.

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Is Life Too Fast? Try Making Some Yogurt.

Making yogurt can be both a measure of your life’s speed and a tool to help slow down. Yogurt making takes times and teaches us to think about processes that can’t be accelerated without ruining them.

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The Eden Project: A Work of Ecological Redemption

At first glance the Eden Project in Cornwall England looks like it would be more comfortably be at home on Mars rather than the quiet English countryside, but it is entirely earthly. The Eden Project began in 2001 in an old clay pit that looked like this as a work of ecological restoration and public [...]

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How To Fix a Food Desert

Food deserts are a growing problem in the U.S. The story of the Anathoth Community is one in which one church takes the call to creation care and justice seriously by starting a community garden for the residents of their community who did not have sufficient access to healthy food.

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20 Questions To Help You Understand Your Place

Creation care starts with knowing the place you live. Here are 20 questions to help you think through what you know, what you don’t know, and how to find it out.

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Four Friends Start a Home-Grown Recycling Program and Inspire a Town

Grace McWilliams rounded up her three friends, set out in their truck, and started picking up their towns waste. It caught on and had a huge impact.

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The Myth of Overpopulation

How the environmental movement has been duped by population advocates and how Christians can lend some clarity.

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Caring for the Earth is Caring for the Poor

Scott Sabin debunks the myth that you have to choose between saving the earth and saving the poor. There does not have to be a sharp dichotomy between Christians caring for the environment and caring for concerns of justice.

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Where Did Dominion Go Wrong?

Sometimes it seems like everything shakes down out of the first three chapters of Genesis. In the book of Genesis the Bible presents the story of our first parents that is packed with meaning. In his essay, “What Happened to Dominion?” Dean Ohlman writing at Wonder of Creation takes a slow walk through those first [...]

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Two Poems

“Glory be to God for changes.”

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Wendell Berry: Think Little

Wendell Berry writes in his essay, Think Little, of the tendency for Americans, who have, according to him, lost their “private life” to think of change in increments of organizations, rather than actually changing the way they live their own lives. He writes: “… The citizen who is willing to think little, and, accepting the discipline [...]

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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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