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When Environmental Injustice Is a Holy Concern

It is often a polarizing discussion: stewardship of the earth matters, but the debate has become so inflamed with political rhetoric that intentional and influential discussion among Christians is often difficult. These…
Cultivation of the Mind

I made a startling discovery today -- that whatever I put into my mind will grow and it's my job to keep up with the garden. As a biologist/gardener -- with a pitifully brown thumb, I might add -- I was a little frighten…
Beauty, Nature and Tiny Houses

By Sam at Creative Theology The untamed Nature is a source of incessant beauty. Why is this? Is it because the beauty of Nature lies in its complexities and its eternal variety? Our mind is simply stimulated by our insuf…
Where Do You Find Beauty?

I'm re-reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I read it earlier this semester, but as I continued reading, I realized that I had passed by some awesome quotes and concepts, and I thought I would elaborate on one.…
C.S. Lewis and the Separation of Man and Nature

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move alo…
Christianity vs. Environmentalism: A Response to the Green Bible

A recent post on Revelife about the “Green Bible” really irked me. Why? Because it boggles my mind why someone would feel offended over a Bible that highlights passages about nature. To me crusading against…
The Green-Letter Bible: Selectively Highlighting God's Care for Creation

With over 1,000 references to the earth in the Bible, compared to 490 references to heaven and 530 references to love, the Bible carries a powerful message for the earth. Imagine that -- the Bible mentions the earth more…
Grace Like Rain

I'm going to deviate from my norm of question mongering and pseudo expositions, which some might call pontifications (I like big words), to share an experience I had about a week ago. It was a friend's birthday, so a…
How Does Human Nature Change in Heaven?

By Will Green A lot of skeptics have this question about heaven: why won't people in heaven do bad things? Especially when you consider how Christians cannot avoid sinning in this life. Is it that God changes human na…
Nature: The God of Avatar

In some movies, you have to do some digging to uncover messages the director wants to convey. But with Avatar, I doubt that James Cameron tried to disguise them. From the beginning I knew what the chief conflict would…