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Bill, of White Flint Farm, over at the Sustainable Traditions network had some hard words to say about our crazy Americanized Christmas season:

"A little over two thousand years ago, an unwed teenage girl, in a barn a long way from her home, and in a country occupied by a foreign military superpower, gave birth to a son. Lacking anything else to put him in, she laid the baby to rest in an animal feed trough… Continue

A prophetic warning to the U.S. from an unlikely messenger?

I love Wendell Berry's writings. His work has helped reshape my worldview, so distorted by the strong current of accepted cultural norms. Wendell Berry is a philosopher-farmer-writer-poet-environmentalist-Christian who isn't afraid to spit in the face of deeply entrenched systems of corruption. He speaks of such deep corruption though, that often his poetic prophet's finger is pointing at us all; and nobody likes to hear that old call to "… Continue

We're exploring ways in which sustainable and intentional living intersects with Christian faith. Here is a video I did of a local sustainable farmer who is a friend of mine. Should the church pursue sustainable living? I say yes. What do you think?



(Interested in how Christian faith intersects with social justice, sustainability, intentional living, and community life? Join us for the conversation over at: Sustainable Traditions) Continue