When Children Wonder about Creation
By Liuan Huska, for Biologos. Churches can help children return to their rightful place in the natural world, healing a growing rift…
Volunteer Biodiversity Restoration
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…”
Wild Wonder with Flo Paris Oakes
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!
Speaking Up for God’s Creation
By Noah Guthrie, in the Ecological Disciple.
“One of the most un-Noah-ish things I’ve ever done for the sake of creation was invading – along with a number of young activists – an opulent business conference. Marching through the doors, we confronted an auditorium of industry leaders with markered signs, protesting the poor environmental conditions that had killed two blue-collar workers…”
Peter Harris and Jo Swinney: A Place at the Table
Peter Harris, Anglican clergyman and founder of environmental non-profit A Rocha, lost his beloved wife Miranda in a car accident in South Africa. Miranda left behind a grieving community, and an unfinished book.
Their daughter, Jo Swinney, found her mother’s unfinished book, full of wisdom and stories from a life dedicated to hospitality. She finished and published it, and in the process, learned much about both grief and joy.
In this episode, Peter and Jo sit down in front of a live audience to discuss the legacy of hospitality and faith that Miranda left, what it has been like to grieve, and what it might be like to see a deteriorating world with the same hope that Miranda did.
What Does It Look Like for Horseshoe Crabs to Flourish?
By Michaela Stenerson, in God and Nature.
“The Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), also known as the American horseshoe crab, is a funky-looking species that despite its name is actually more closely related to scorpions and spiders than crabs. They are sometimes called living fossils because of how little their biology has changed since before the time of the dinosaurs…”
The Ocean Declares: Horseshoe Crabs, Hospitality, and Creatureliness #143
When the wind is just right, on a small beach in Titusville, Florida, horseshoe crabs crawl out of the water and onto the beach to lay their eggs. Jim and Colin joined up with two marine biologists—Bob Sluka who works with A Rocha, a Christian conservation organization and Margaret Miller, a coral biologist who works with SECORE International—and three A Rocha interns to survey the horseshoe crabs. That experience began an exploration into paying attention to many of the creatures that surround us, extending hospitality, and learning from the creatures, even from the ocean itself, about how we might better worship the creator of it all.
Christianity, Climate Change, and Environmental Care: Dr. Ben Lowe
Preston Sprinkle talks with A Rocha USA Executive Director, Ben Lowe, about a Christian theology of Creation Care, the nature of the new creation, how to interpret 2 Pet 3, where it seems like God is going to destroy the earth. We then spend the bulk of our time looking at various environmental issues related to climate change, biodiversity, sustainable living, and how Christians can live reasonable and just lives that honor our task to care for creation.
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© 2024 A Rocha USA
A Rocha USA
A Rocha USA
A Rocha USA, Inc.
PO Box 223
Wheaton, IL 60187
Email: [email protected]
© 2024 A Rocha USA
A Rocha USA
A Rocha USA
