Creation Care in Music City: Q&A with Nashville Conservation Coordinator Noah Guthrie
Noah Guthrie delights in pangolins and reflects on Christ’s reconciliation of “all things, whether on earth or in heaven,” to God (Col. 1:19-20).
Churches of Restoration
What if Christians embraced our call to care for creation as part of faithful discipleship and witness? Churches of Restoration is a national program of A Rocha USA that gathers local cohorts of churches in a yearlong journey of transformative conversations, spiritual formation, and practical ecological action.
This film was created as part of the Storytellers Collective, a program of Christians for Social Action.
It highlights four churches and their experiences from our pilot Churches of Restoration cohort in the Orlando, Florida area.
Why Climate Work Keeps Me In Church | by Liuan Huska
From Sojouners, by Liuan Huska. “The harvest is ripe. More and more Christians from across the theological spectrum want their faith communities to do something about our environmental crises….”
Faithful Ecological Science with Ben Lowe | Conversing with Mark Labberton
From the Conversing Podcast with Mark Labberton, A Rocha USA Executive Director, Ben Lowe, discusses our ecological crisis, the role of Christian faith and spirituality, and how churches can respond with hope, action, and theological depth.
The Language of Lilies: A Review of “Birds in the Sky, Fish in the Sea”
By Hannah Hubin. Reading “Birds in the Sky, Fish in the Sea” feels a bit like learning another language, which means I must admit that the life within my own backyard often feels “foreign” to me – another vocabulary, another planet… Dickerson and Clark gently acquaint us with our own world and remind us that we are all called to know and care for a beautiful and groaning creation.
Twistflower Cross
By Noah Guthrie. The sprouting of these seeds echoes another resurrection, and their tattered flowers recall another body raised on a stem to be pierced, tortured, and buried. “Truly, truly, I say to you,” Jesus said, “unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (John 12:24).
Kipuka to Kipuka | Islands of Life, Faith & Restoration
From the Biologos Language of God podcast. In this episode we hear the story of three places where people are caring for the land that reveal an important truth: as we care for and find connection with the land, the land cares for and supports us. And it leads us to ask, can our relationship with God be complete without a healthy relationship with the rest of creation?