By Leah Kostamo, co-founder and lead writer for A Rocha Canada Perhaps, dear reader, you are one of those enlightened souls who goes around humming hymns and thanking God for his manifold blessings – all day, every day. If so, good on you. (Seriously, good on you!) But perhaps you are like the …
Archives for October 2013
Reflections and Refractions on the Anacostia River
By Matt Kuniholm, Washington D.C. A Rocha Project Director River Reflections Like most things, rivers are reflections of the people and places surrounding them. The color of water reflects the mineral content of the bedrock and soils throughout the watershed. The taste of water reflects trace …
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“To Repair the World” – Part I of a conversation with Stan and Jay
By Stan Le Quire of Eastern University and Jay Renfro, member of Nashville A Rocha Jay and Stan are two guys who dream about changing the world. Together, they are reading Paul Farmer’s To Repair the World. Paul has a great reputation as someone who changes the world. This week, Jay and Stan are …
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The Good City: Community and Urban Order
As the God-ordained stewards of the earth, we must be attentive to the condition of our homes, towns, cities and countryside; the love of our neighbors demands it. A rich theology of human flourishing must include the recognition that communities are sustained by memory of their history and by …
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Mystical object or ocean animal?
WOW! montereybayaquarium: Mystical object, or ocean animal? This is how life started for the African blackfooted penguin chick that hatched August 15. Our aviculturists hold eggs to the light, a process called candling, to monitor development during incubation. Download the computer …
everydayrainbows: "I began to see, however dimly, that one of my ambitions, perhaps my governing ambition, was to belong fully to this place, to belong as the thrushes and the herons and the muskrats belonged, to be altogether at home here… it is a spiritual ambition, like goodness. the wild …