A Rocha USA
By: Hannah Gillespie “People find their way to A Rocha and are excited to discover a story of Christians caring for creation,” starts Jenna Henderson, A Rocha USA’s Director of National Programs. “They want to get connected, but our country is huge. If you don’t live near a conservation …
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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 your kitchen and it falls on the ground, …
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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 to encourage learning from the book of God’s …
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by Mark McReynolds, A Rocha USA SoCal Project Director 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 have burnt down - over 1,000 homes are gone. Smoke has created very unhealthy air …
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 recommended readings. There are now three reading …
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 surrounding racial injustice. He noted that …
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 the pandemic, those rhythms have ceased …
There’s something that, at least to me, feels strange about identifying “silver linings” to sheltering at home. We don’t seem to be through this time yet, and there are a lot of unknowns around the corner. We haven’t accounted for the toll this has taken on lives and livelihoods, and how can we …
“The local church is the best way to restore people and their places.” So begins You Are There: Restoring Churches, People and Places, the recent release by pastor and A Rocha board member, Robert Campbell. In it, Campbell examines local conservation work from the vantage of one particular place …
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I’ve been visiting some family in Canada this past week – in Manitoba, not too far from A Rocha Canada’s Pembina Valley Guesthouse. Sitting in the hot afternoon sun watching the poplars shimmer in the wind, we saw a large flock of blackbirds fly overhead. “That means fall is coming,” said my dad. …
