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• C. S. Lewis and the Right Relationship of Animals and Humans
  C. S. Lewis, in his book Perelandra, pictures what our relationship with animals may have been like had there been no fall. There are examples of the remnants of that unfallen relationship today, but even they are not what they are supposed to be. […]
• The Wilderness is Not a Commodity
  Dean Ohlman writes about the need to view the earth as more than merely a pile of resources, but as a good in its own right. Creation care happens when we see the earth as God sees it in all its beauty, wonder, and complexity. […]
• Water Conservation at Church: Saving Water Indoors
  Well-digging is only half of the equation. To be compassionate stewards of God's creation, Christians must conserve water at church as well as provide it to the thirsty. […]
• St. John and Slavery: A Case Study In How Creation Heals From Its Wounds
  The slave trade on St. John USVI wrecked havoc on the landscape, but over time creation has healed itself. It is a testament to the fact that, though we can break the world, it is not wholly broken, and God can always bring healing to the earth. […]
• “Greenest College Student” Saves His Trash For A Year
  Brennan Bird, recently dubbed "Greenest College Student Of The Year," conducted an eco-project in which he saved all the trash he produced for a year and lived with it in his dorm room both to raise get people to question their own consumption habits and to get himself to see his own environmental impact. […]
• Redemption by the Side of the Road
  The Crossing’s motivation for restoring a degraded piece of property was much more than just curb appeal. […]
• The Connection Between Admiring Creation and Admiring God
  There is a connection between appreciating the Lord and appreciating what he has made. The work of God's hands is invested with his attributes. We need to take time and admire creation. In doing so, we are admiring its maker too. […]
• Seven Laws of Ecology
  In "For the Beauty of the Earth" Stephen Bouma-Prediger provides seven basic principles which undergird and frame our thinking about the earth and boost our "ecological literacy." […]
• Save on Gas and Grow in Fellowship: Three Steps to Carpooling to Church
  The carpool declined in popularity in the 20th century, but is it having a renaissance? Here are three steps to bringing the carpool to church. […]
• 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. […]