Published by Waynesburg University. Students attended the marine service trip of a lifetime during their 2024-25 winter break at A Rocha USA. The group was led through the wonders of Florida’s ecosystems by Dr. Christian Hayes and Dr. Tracy Dohn-Cummins, working in conjunction with A Rocha USA to learn about southern marine life’s environmental challenges and actively serve local communities.
By Heidy Chuang. If the Church, in a world full of industry and agenda, can create spacious places for artists to flourish, they will become the storytellers, teachers, and hope-bringers God has designed them to be.
By Noah Guthrie. What can it look like, in practice, to treat creation as “sacred”? Part of what it may look like is entering a conversation with our landscapes and their species. It may look like asking, “What does the Living God – the Source, Redeemer, and Sustainer of this place – invite us to hear? And once we have listened, how might God invite us to respond?”
By Dr. Robert Sluka. A dugong hadn’t been spotted in Kenya in a long time – but what was the big deal? I argued that these animals were one voice in the orchestra of creation praising God, and that protecting them and helping them thrive again was an important part of our Christian faith.
By Sydney Houck. A Rocha USA interns and A Rocha USA’s Lead Scientist, Dr. Robert Sluka, have volunteered with the Brevard Zoo to establish oyster reefs, collect data, and build gabions – wire cages filled with oyster shells, which Restore Our Shores uses to encourage the colonization of oysters.
By Simon Stuart. As the birds accompany her on her journey from grief to hope, Ellis weaves in reflections on almost all of life. She gives us thoughtful insights to being a wife, mom, pastor, daughter, granddaughter, sister, friend – always in a way that rings true. She muses on the character of God, the state of the church and society, and much more, with great wisdom.
By Gerry Koning. At his death, the second Adam, Christ, was unclothed except for the crown of thorns he wore to the cross. These thorns seem to signify that, along with humanity’s sins, Jesus also bore the curse of creation.
From the ecoChristian podcast with Caleb Cray Haynes. What is the deal with our beliefs around the end times and how does that affect how we think about climate change and biodiversity loss? Here we’re joined by Ben Lowe of A Rocha USA to talk about his research on this very topic!
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.