How Does Creation Care Figure into Your Worship Curation?
Mark Pierson claims that “the reason we come together as a church community is to sustain people in their following of Jesus Christ in the world.” (The Art of Curating Worship, 20-21) This then must...
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When we understand the ultimate priority of worship, then we can understand why saving the whales – and all other species and forms of life on this earth – is so important. Humpback whales sing songs…...
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The View from Your Pew
Date: April 22, 2011 Time: 7 p.m. Location: Des Moines, Iowa Church: Des Moines Intentional Eucharistic Community Artist: Ted Lyddon Hatten Caption: This Good Friday/Earth Day installation included 40...
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Why We Need a Bigger Creation Narrative
I’ve always been a sucker for the poetic metaphors of Wendell Berry. He is the master at inviting his audience into a visceral spirituality. Every poem smells like fresh earth. I’ll admit to you, it...
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I don’t think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a “hypaethral book,” such as Thoreau talked about—a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors,...
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A Double-Rainbow! I Wonder. What It Means.
Perhaps you are one of the nearly 28 million people who saw this video shortly after it was posted last year. I am. But, I watched it again. You should too: “Oh my God! A complete double-rainbow. Right...
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This is my Father’s world, and to my listening ears All nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres. This is my Father’s world: I rest me in the thought Of rocks and trees, of skies and...
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Discovering the Spirit’s Green Streak
This post was written by Craig Goodwin. I pastor an 85-year-old Presbyterian congregation in Spokane, Washington. Over the last seven years we’ve been experimenting with new expressions of church life...
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