What’s Wrong With Our Food System?

Flourish Online has a great article to help each of us think beyond the green commandments. Here’s Dave Timmer: Recently I watched a news clip of a woman plugging her new book on “green” living from a faith perspective. Like so many others, her book gives ideas for living a “green” lifestyle and, of course,…

Here we are, just a few days before Christmas, so I’m guessing that whatever decorating you were planning to do is already done–or not going to get done! However, here I am anyway with some tips and ideas. Christmas Trees: If possible, cut a real one…and plant another. Why? It’s not made of plastic and…

Once upon a time this question was asked in grocery stores. Sure isn’t any more, not where I live. I don’t know if I could even choose paper if I wanted to. Anyway, it turns out the environmental issues aren’t as clearcut as we’ve been led to believe. Plastic lasts forever in the landfill, but…

I am insignificant. What can I do? I’m nobody. No one listens to me. Why should I bother? I may as well give it up. There are nearly seven billion people on the planet, and I am only one. I can’t make a difference. Oh yeah. So easy to be defeatist. So easy to throw…

Our Father’s World: Mobilizing the Church to Care for Creation By Edward R Brown 2006, 2008 It seems a lot of times Christians aren’t interested in environmental issues. It’s like we believe that God made the earth for us, handed it over, and we can do what we like with it. As parents, do we…