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By: Hannah Gillespie As part of A Rocha USA’s commitment to environmental education, Wild Wonder Camp curriculum was designed to help children learn and wonder about God and nature, get kids outside, and spark their imaginations as they learn and explore. Research on children overwhelmingly …
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By: Hannah Gillespie Throughout the Bible, God uses small things to accomplish big plans. We see this in the famous tale of David and Goliath. David selected five small pebbles, such a small and insignificant object alone. But David’s faith in God allowed him to accomplish what seemed …
By Ben Lowe, Evangelical Environmental Network and Young Evangelicals for Climate Action One of my favorite places in all of America is the St. Lucie River in South Florida. The St. Lucie is a wide tidal river connected to the Indian River Lagoon — the most biodiverse estuary system in the United …
by Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director From drink bottles to styrofoam cups to those clamshells that ironically protect organic fruits at Costco, plastic—the material so famously and presciently proclaimed as the “future” to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate—is taking over. Consider the …
By Peter Harris, co-founder of A Rocha Miranda and I recently visited our son and his family on the island of St Helena. It lies in the middle of the South Atlantic and so the only way to get there is to sail for six days from Cape Town. It was a massive privilege to undertake such an …
By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director As new year resolve fades and resolutions fail, I offer a more hope-filled alternative: keep your eyes on Jesus. In a world where people are dying, the climate is changing and species are going extinct—a world that is in biblical terms utterly …
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 …
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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By John Elwood I don’t know many churches that will fight to protect a forest. Until now, I don’t think I knew even one. But loving God compels us to love the stuff he made. And loving our neighbors demands that we love the natural world they depend on. In the small Kenyan town of Kijabe, …
A Rocha USA Executive Director Tom Rowley shares with Relevant Magazine why Christians can't afford to neglect creation care in the following interview. (Source: http://www.relevantmagazine.com/reject-apathy/why-earth-care-matters-gospel). Let’s start at square one: Why is environmental …
