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The Grace of Bean Sprouts and Bluebonnets

By Lucy Strandlund

Apr 2, 2020

My original task for this blog post was to tell you all about the vegetable and herb garden several members of our community have worked to rebuild and plant for spring at the seminary. When I sat down to write, however, news of the pandemic was falling all around me, and talk of ordinary things […]

Touching Hearts

By Danielle Hansen

Mar 25, 2020

I was walking across my college campus on September 12, 2001 when I ran into a student from my French class, sitting on the steps of the dining hall, staring straight ahead, her arms wrapped around her legs. She and I had little in common outside of the course.  She came from a prestigious Manhattan prep school […]

Stewarding our Devotion

By Gena Minnix

Mar 10, 2020

Years ago, my family lived in the Pacific Northwest, where we faced much longer, colder, and darker winters than we do here in Austin. To cope with the seemingly endless days without sunshine or warmth, my husband and I started a new annual tradition: watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Together, we warded off […]

Building an Ark

By Lize Burr

Mar 5, 2020

Ten years ago, I was an expert at talking about the Texas environment. I wasn’t an expert on emissions of volatile organic compounds at refineries in the Golden Triangle, or the chemicals used fracking fluid, or the Competitive Renewable Energy Zone lines that were being built to bring wind power from West Texas to cities […]

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 […]