By Tristy Osbon. Wilderlands proactively works to protect Australia’s biodiversity forever, one square meter at a time, presenting conservation and protection as a viable path for sellers and buyers…
By Liuan Huska. We care because we know and love. Every element of creation—from milkweed plants to the northern lights—is part of the web of relationship and belonging that God wove from the start of the earth.
By Nick Davis. The Chain Pipefish represents a valuable opportunity for conservation research due to its data-deficient status and the limited understanding of its ecology in the Indian River Lagoon. This lack of data is particularly concerning given the ongoing degradation of the pipefish’s habitat, which may threaten its presence in the lagoon.
By Rev. David Schoenknecht.
There’s nothing quite like the twilight crescendo of a million humming mosquitos to make you forget the roaring of urban traffic. The morning mist that rises silently between rocky islets stills the soul. The clarity of water that’s potable without treatment refreshes the spirit. The sudden appearance of a summer squall—with no apps to predict its coming—and then the swift parting of its ragged clouds like a curtain to reveal the Milky Way restores our wonder.
By Michaela Stenerson and Madeline Padgett The Bracted twistflower, Streptanthus bracteatus, is a species of annual flowering plant in the mustard family Br …
Should climate action come before biodiversity conservation? In the words of our friend and climate scientist, Katharine Hayhoe, indigenous groups, communit …
Sylvie Vanhoozer’s The Art of Living in Season reminds me of a French camellia: petals within petals, each layer enfolded in the next. Throughout the book, Van …
The changing of seasons can symbolize new beginnings. That is certainly the case for our latest Conservation Internship cohort, for whom the start of summ …
Beside the coiling whip of Bull Creek, three A Rocha interns waded through thorns, making war against the Glossy Privet. As we heaved our shoulders against vines and viper-green barbs, we brandished our weapons: a red flip-saw for hacking, a hawkbill knife for slitting trunks, and a weed-wrench for dragging saplings headfirst from the soil…
Flowing down the east coast of Florida in roughly the shape of a dragonfly’s wing, the Indian River Lagoon harbors about 4,000 plant and animal species, making it the most biodiverse estuary in North America…
A Rocha USA is a national community of Christians working in biodiversity conservation to protect and restore vulnerable habitats, species, and communities. We are part of a worldwide family of A Rocha organizations spanning more than 20 countries, with a shared 40-year history of caring for creation. In USA, we have projects in Texas and Florida, and national programs available for churches and individuals.
There were three of us: A Rocha interns, burrowers seeking burrowers. With a clipboard, a transect, some orange flags, and two pole-mounted sieves, we wandered down Playalinda Beach, as pelicans winged overhead and the Atlantic unspooled across the horizon…
‘Blue,’ the fifth installment of A Rocha’s ‘Elements of Hope’ video series, delves into the relationship between mental health challenges and the positive effects of nature on our wellbeing. We investigate how immersing ourselves in nature can pull us out of our internal struggles and rekindle our connection to God and His call for us to be stewards of creation. Link to a study guide is available in the Vimeo notes.
Bounce Back, the fourth installment in A Rocha’s ‘Elements of Hope’ video series, asks us to examine where we find our hope amidst environmental disaster, such …
Bounce Back, the fourth installment in A Rocha’s ‘Elements of Hope’ video series, asks us to examine where we find our hope amidst environmental disasters, such as extreme wildfires or terrible floods. The film explores the idea of ‘refugia’, defined as an area in which a population of organisms can survive through a period of unfavorable conditions, especially glaciation and fire.
Forests do not regenerate without fire, and, like our own personal walk with Christ, we too must face challenges and be pruned and refined to grow in our faith. Loving God’s creation comes with lament and heartbreak for the things that are lost. But there is hope.
Learn more about finding hope amidst disaster in the ‘Bounce Back’ film and share with your church, school, bible study or youth group. You can find the accompanying discussion guide at arocha.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Study-Guide_Bounce-Back.pdf and download the video from our Vimeo channel.
By Tristy Osbon. Wilderlands proactively works to protect Australia’s biodiversity forever, one square meter at a time, presenting conservation and protection as a viable path for sellers and buyers…
By Liuan Huska. We care because we know and love. Every element of creation—from milkweed plants to the northern lights—is part of the web of relationship and belonging that God wove from the start of the earth.
By Ecologist Rick Lindroth, for Biologos. “Nature connection is fundamentally important for our spiritual health. Rick writes, “what the Christian community has largely failed to realize is that in distancing ourselves from nature, we are distancing ourselves from God…”
From RAW Mission, by Frontiers UK, with Dr. Robert Sluka, once a missionary with Frontiers in the Maldive Islands, where his love for oceans, ocean people and marine biology all combined.
Bob and Matt discuss integral mission and how caring for the environment is very much part of our biblical mandate and God’s heart for the poor.
By Noah Guthrie, in the Ecological Disciple.
“It was the fall of 2018, and I was one of a dozen interns working at the Brooksdale Environmental Centre. With a reedy wetland, a curling belt of Douglas firs, and a mini village of white-walled, brown-beamed homes, Brooksdale is A Rocha Canada’s base of operations in British Columbia…”
By Liuan Huska, for Biologos. Churches can help children return to their rightful place in the natural world, healing a growing rift…
By Noah Guthrie, in the Ecological Disciple.
“Working in a prison lot, I heaved shovelfuls of shells from a sprawling oyster boneyard. Each shell was roughly the shape of an ear – one side a coarse dome, the other a pearly, bruised teardrop – and there were thousands piled together, forming hills higher than my head…”
Do you need permission to sit and wonder at the intricacies of God’s creation? The child within you is created to wild and wonder.
In this episode, host Caleb Cray Haynes takes a seat with Rev. Flo Oakes as they explore together the intersections between childlikeness and creation, and chat about the Wild Wonder Camp!
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Wheaton, IL 60187
Email: [email protected]
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