By: Laura Vessey 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 as extreme wildfires or terrible floods. The film explores the idea of ‘refugium’, defined as an area in which a …
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Hope for God’s Groaning World
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 …
Postcard from St Helena
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 …
Christmas: The End of Scorekeeping
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 …
There is no Drought of Living Water
By Robert Campbell, Pastor of Santa Margarita Community Church and A Rocha USA Board Member The front lawn died sometime in November. We hold a small memorial in its honor every Monday and Thursday when we have permission to run the sprinklers, but choose not to. It is dead, all of it, from that …
Peter Harris :: All Things Reconciled – Christ and Creation
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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Why Earth Care Matters to the Gospel
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 …
Hopeful Action
By Tom Rowley, Executive Director of A Rocha USA At a recent conference in the United States, keynote speaker, author and Professor of philosophy Kathleen Dean Moore, invited the audience to “give up hope” for the environment. At one end of the hope extreme, she said, is “hopelessness”: …
For Once, Some Environmental Good News?
By Peter Harris, Founder of A Rocha The modern environmental movement in western countries is a bit like a performance I saw as a child of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, but in reverse. The environmental stage began empty with romantic ideas of wilderness and unspoiled nature. Then, a first …
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