by Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director If you’ve never read “The Snake” by Anne Herbert, you should. In this humorous yet poignant revisit of Eden, Herbert likens original sin to keeping score. “At first we did have fun just like [God] expected. We played all the time. We rolled down …
Redemption
Kids and Nature: A Win-Win
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 …
There is no Drought of Living Water
By Robert Campbell, Pastor of Santa Margarita Community Church and A Rocha USA Board Member The front lawn died sometime in November. We hold a small memorial in its honor every Monday and Thursday when we have permission to run the sprinklers, but choose not to. It is dead, all of it, from that …
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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People or Planet? Yes.
By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director Debunking the notion that God doesn’t care about the environment is easy enough to do. Jesus made it (John 1:1-3). Jesus owns it (Ps 24:1). Jesus redeems it. (Col 1:20). And if that isn’t enough for you, check out Revelation 11:18. (Spoiler: I fear we …