How can Mennonites respond to climate change? Sheri Hostetler, pastor of First Mennonite Church of San Francisco, and Katerina Friesen, a student at Anabaptist Mennonite…
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Has climate change made it harder to care about conservation?
Jonathan Franzen, a writer for The New Yorker, discusses the problem with seeing everything in a “climate change is the highest priority” framework. While small problems have solutions, large ones merely overwhelm. The last half of the article focuses on conservation stories in the Peruvian rainforest and the Costa Rican dry forest. Note parallels to watershed discipleship articles elsewhere on this website. Read the article here.
Reading Nature the Way Jesus Did
In an article entitled, “Why Care About the Environment?” in The Mennonite (May 6, 2015), Todd Wynward argues that we need to begin reading the…
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Watershed Way Offers Accountability
Todd Wynward is a public school founder, wilderness educator and small-scale farmer who lives with his family in Taos, NM. Recently he was licensed by…
Read moreWatershed Discipleship in Kansas City: Floating the Kansas River
This event is a learning opportunity available Friday, July 3 at the Mennonite Church USA 2015 Convention. What does Watershed Discipleship look like in a…
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