By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director Nature is good for us. Obvious as that may be, Richard Louv’s celebrated Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder provides study upon study substantiating and quantifying the notion: Time outside engaged in nature …
Core Commitments
Landscape Walk: The Art and Science of Paying Attention
By Flo Paris-Oakes, intern and member of Nashville A Rocha Recently, Nashville A Rocha hosted a landscape walk on property in Whites Creek, which is a rural community about twelve minutes north of downtown Nashville. Our special guest was Daniel Ballard, landscaper and owner of Green Thumbs Up …
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All Things Reconciled Remarks
By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director The following are excerpts from opening remarks at "All Things Reconciled: Considering Christ and Creation” a select gathering co-hosted by A Rocha and Kilns College in Bend, Oregon, October 21-13, 2014. This summer my family and I had the great …
Peter Harris :: All Things Reconciled – Christ and Creation
A Rocha founders Peter and Miranda Harris visited Antioch Church in Bend, Oregon this October. In the video below, "Peter discusses the current trajectory of the global environment and casts a vision for a more engaged, more concerned Christian community". http://vimeo.com/109542957 Source: …
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Bird by Bird, Person by Person
By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director In Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott recounts her dad’s instructions to her then 10-year-old brother panicking over a school report on bird taxonomy he had to write, which--after three months of procrastination—was due …
Living Planet Report
By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director Findings of World Wildlife Fund’s just-released Living Planet Report 2014 are grim. Population sizes of vertebrate species—mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish—have declined by 52 percent over the last 40 years. In other words, those …
From Smallest Seed: Music Inspired by Community and Conservation
By Sandra McCracken, singer-songwriter, member of Nashville A Rocha Original post here. There are so many things to care about, so many broken things that need fixing, so many wounds that need mending, so much good waiting to happen in our world. As a songwriter by vocation and a biology …
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Conservation From the Top Down
By Peter Harris, co-founder of A Rocha Scientific research doesn’t ‘prove’ religious truth but nevertheless each set of convictions addresses the same reality. So it shouldn’t be surprising that a recent insight within the discipline of ecology aligns beautifully with the foundational biblical …
A Rocha’s Five Core Commitments as Lived by John Stott − 4: Community
By Miranda Harris, co-founder of A Rocha Community is a complicated word. Like one of those huge lorries that thunders past on the motorway, it isn’t always obvious what’s in it. It’s an emotive term which may awaken longing, panic, or just mild curiosity. As one of A Rocha’s core commitments, we …
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A Rocha’s Five Core Commitments as Lived by John Stott – 2: Conservation
By Miranda Harris, co-founder of A Rocha I have a favourite photo of John Stott. He is crouching over a clump of wild crocuses on a stony Turkish hillside, the heavy lens of his camera perfectly steady in his outstretched hands despite the awkward angle of his body. Photographing photographers is …
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