Ecology

Old tree with long branches

A Revelation on Creation

The loss of a live oak leads to a new conception of the seven lively virtues.

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holding a baby duck | Photo by Amy Humphries on Unsplash

Love and Action: Caring for Creation

If we are to love as God has loved us, then our lives must involve renunciation so that we can make room for the rest of the creation.
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Let’s Create a Better World

As I imagine a flourishing world, I picture one in which we are all able to become our truest, best, most Christlike selves.
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Bee on a flower | Photo by Sara Kurfeß on Unsplash

Seeing the World as Kin

Through the eyes of love, we see a tree as kin to us, a fellow God-made creature, with its own dignity and its own right to live and grow.
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Country house

The Power of Home

This fall marks six years since my family and I sold our 27-acre organic farm and the house we had designed and built ourselves—the place my wife and I thought we’d call home our entire lives.
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people holding a lantern | Photo by Sourabh Barua on Unsplash

Wendell Berry on Humility

When I was young, my family took a trip to the Epcot Center at Disney World.
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God Wastes Nothing

If we are called to conform ourselves and our culture to the nature of God and the nature of nature, then we can’t simply throw away things.
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