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Christ the First-fruit

By Nathan Jennings

Feb 25, 2020

We inherit from modernity a cultural frame that divides nature – the “great outdoors” – from being human. The “environment” becomes this thing outside ourselves, from which we find ourselves separated. Finding ourselves in that situation, we are surprised that our behavior somehow seems to affect the world around us. There seem to be problems […]

Stewarding Water

By Scott Bader-Saye

Feb 19, 2020

On my first trip to the southwest with the woman who would become my wife, I took in the arid earth, the minimalist flora and fauna, the dust and rock, and thought this must be what the moon is like. I had lived in the east my whole life, only venturing west to ski in […]

Being a Christian in Times of Crisis

By Jennifer Owens-Jofre

Feb 11, 2020

On days like today, it’s hard to be Christian.  Following the advice often attributed to Karl Barth, I aim to be the kind of Christian who lives her faith with the newspaper in one hand and the Gospels in the other.  As the realities to which articles like this one and this one point seem […]

Grief and Hope in a Suffering Creation

By Anthony Baker

Feb 5, 2020

Perhaps the first thing is to grieve. Before we get angry about the death of coral reefs, the politics that allow the Amazon forests to burn, the economic pressures that are aggravating the coronavirus epidemic. Before we organize to pressure governments and businesses to think about the future and not just the next election or […]

Advent Meditation: Wednesday, December 25, 2019

By Cynthia Briggs Kittredge

Dec 1, 2019

Psalm 72, 111, 113 •  2 Samuel 7:1-17  •  Luke 1:39-48a(48b-56) “And it came to pass in those days.” Here begins the first, and for a long time the only, passage of scripture I had ever known by heart, thanks to my starring role as narrator in the Christmas pageant as a child. On first […]