By Jason Howard and Silas House Flourish magazine, Spring 2010 Denise Giardina is a radical. Perched on the worn couch in her cozy home in Charleston, West Virginia, Giardina doesn’t shy away from this term, a death knell in … [Read more...]
Famine to Feast: The Story of Anathoth Community Garden
August 15, 2011 by 8 Comments
by Fred Bahnson Flourish magazine, Summer 2010 The story of Anathoth Community Garden really begins with a murder. On a June afternoon in 2004, Bill King was closing up his shop on the corner of Mill Creek and Carr Store roads when someone … [Read more...]
Where is There Hope? Christian Faith at Home on Earth
August 8, 2011 by 2 Comments
By Steven Bouma-Prediger Flourish Magazine, Fall 2010 Homelessness. Hopelessness. Living in exile. One philosopher describes life today as “coping with the flux”—learning to get along in the concrete details of life without the … [Read more...]
Tending to Eden: The rural poor are tangled in the roots of creation’s groaning
August 1, 2011 by 5 Comments
By Scott C. Sabin Flourish Magazine, Winter 2010 Nearly one billion people make their livings as farmers at or near subsistence level. Since these men and women barely participate in the cash economy, they are overlooked by … [Read more...]
The Edge of Enough: Digging Life Out of the Compost Bin
July 25, 2011 by 2 Comments
By Tom Montgomery-Fate Flourish magazine, Summer 2010 Be content with what you have; Rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. - From the … [Read more...]
Christ vs. Consumerism: Choosing Contentment in a Commercialized World
July 18, 2011 by 6 Comments
by Matthew Sleeth Flourish Magazine, Spring 2010 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and … [Read more...]
Book | The Family Dinner
March 14, 2011 by 3 Comments
Reviewed by Rachel Stone Flourish magazine, Winter 2011 The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time, by Laurie David, with recipes by Kirstin Uhrenholdt Hachette Book Group, 2010, 256 pages You may … [Read more...]
Book | Mere Environmentalism
March 7, 2011 by 1 Comment
Reviewed by Jim Jewell Flourish magazine, Winter 2011 Mere Environmentalism: A Biblical Perspective on Humans and the Natural World by Steven F. Hayward AEI Press, 2010, 100 pages During the Christmas holiday, my family spent a lot of … [Read more...]
An Education: A Costa Rican Community Learns What Helps and What Hurts in the Wake of Disaster
February 21, 2011 by 6 Comments
By Tim Høiland Flourish magazine, Winter 2011 The small, quiet town of San Rafael sits amidst passing clouds on the slopes of Volcán Barva in the heart of Costa Rica. The confluence of two strong air currents—one rising from the … [Read more...]
Redemption by the Side of the Road
February 14, 2011 by 3 Comments
By Andy Patton Flourish magazine, Winter 2011 The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, sits just off of a high-speed, four-lane highway lined with fast-food chains, a Wal-Mart Supercenter, and a cluster of modular, low-rent … [Read more...]
Beyond the “Green” Commandments
February 7, 2011 by 12 Comments
By Dave Timmer Flourish magazine, Winter 2011 Recently I watched a news clip of a woman plugging her new book on “green” living from a faith perspective. Like so many others, her book gives ideas for living a “green” … [Read more...]
How To Fix a Food Desert
February 4, 2011 by 1 Comment
The term "food desert" conjures up images of barren wastes, but we should not think of them as far away places - they are all around us. Slate Labs put together this interactive map (right) of households in food deserts in the U. S. by county. A … [Read more...]
The Myth of Overpopulation
January 31, 2011 by 10 Comments
By Rusty Pritchard Flourish magazine, Winter 2011 There’s a perilous notion lurking in the minds of many in the environmental movement. Confronted with a burgeoning human population, and frustrated at the human impact on the world’s … [Read more...]
Two Poems
January 28, 2011 by 2 Comments
By Luci Shaw Flourish magazine, Winter 2011 Under the Snowing Under the snowing the leaves lie still. Brown animals sleep through the storm, unknowing, behind the bank and the frozen hill. And just as deep in the coated … [Read more...]