Carole Suderman, Boulder, Colorado, has a saying posted on her refrigerator: “You don’t have to be John Muir or Rachel Carson to save the world;…
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Greening from the Ground Up
You, like I, have no doubt been glued to the hurricane news lately and worried for anyone living in Florida, Texas or the Caribbean. While…
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Unfreeze Yourself: Five Ways to Take Action on Climate Change Now
A book by Christine Penner Polle. Outskirts Press, 2015.
The author is an educator, mother and healer–as well as a member of MCCN.
- Read the Canadian Mennonite’s review of her book.
- Visit her website at www.tappingcourage.com and learn about her work with environmental trauma.
Intersections, Summer 2017
Responding to Climate Change
Intersections is Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC’s) online quarterly on theory and practice related to international development. “Climate change is challenging MCC’s efforts to build healthy communities,…
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Kingdom Teachings from Soil
“Danile brought samples of forest, woodland, and farmed field soils and talked about how soil is the source of life and not unlike the Spirit in its vitality,” writes columnist Jane Bishop Halteman. She is describing a worship service focused on soil during a Season of Creation series at Kern Road Mennonite Church, South Bend, Ind. The essay reflects further on the parallels between the way soil is formed and “how the Divine works among us.” Read more.
For 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