After 300 miles, 10 days and several flat tires, a group of 30 college students, including four from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), has crossed Virginia…
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EMU Wins Top Recycling Ranking in Virginia
For the last four years, Eastern Mennonite University has finished as runner-up in the state rankings of colleges and universities participating in the national Recyclemania…
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A new climate for discipleship
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…
Read moreFor in [Christ] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
Colossians 1:19 - 20