How Should I Pray for the Climate?
I followed COP26 from a distance. Other Christians showed up in Glasgow and asked God to intervene.
Want to Take Climate Action? Meet Climate Stewards USA
By Brittany Michalski & Autumn Ayers Introducing Climate Stewards USA, a new program of A Rocha USA! Climate Stewards USA is a program for individuals, communities, and organizations who want to take action on climate change and join us in ...
Small Things That Make a Big Difference
by Dr. Robert Sluka, Lead Scientist A Rocha USA's Marine Conservation Program & Florida Project Director Nurdles – a fun word to say. These are plastic pellets and cleaning them up, though, is no fun. Imagine opening a bag of popcorn in y ...
Praising God in Angeles National Forest
Church in Creation is a SoCal A Rocha initiative registered with Wild Church Network. Perceiving a need for Christians to connect with God, one another, and creation, SoCal project director and eco-pastor Mark McReynolds began holding outdoor gatherings t ...
Logging Doesn’t Solve U.S. Wildfires
by Mark McReynolds, A Rocha USA SoCal Project Director 📷: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/ on 20200928 With over 5 million acres (2.25 million hectares) burned in three coastal states and fires dotting the US West, many communities have evacuated, and a few ...
Loving Your Place through Food
by Lizzy Ranheim “We lament the broken relationships, attitudes, and systems that lead to oppression, suffering, and death of God’s human creation” – A Rocha USA statement, June 2020 As our world aches from pervasive disease and injustice, we ...
At Home 2020, Early July
The first demand any work of art makes upon is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. - C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism The early-July refresh of the Resources for Sheltering at Home page brings a series of recom ...
At Home 2020, Mid-June
Recently, I had the chance to speak with my former teacher, Dr. Norman Wirzba, for an interview for Love Your Place’s upcoming book club on Living the Sabbath. During our conversation, I asked him what place Sabbath rest might have in our national unrest ...
At Home 2020, Early June
As the pandemic has radically altered what daily life and practices look like, it’s likely affected most of our sense of time. For those of us working from home, the rhythms of the workday have become unfamiliar. For those of us who have lost jobs during ...
Considering Birds Together: Global Big Day with A Rocha
by Autumn Ayers, SoCal A Rocha “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” (Matthew 6:26 ESV) When Jesus perceives anxiety i ...