Created out of nothing means created out of love
To say creation is ex nihilo is to say that divine love is the only power at work in the creation of everything.
A book that has transformed my life of faith
For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, we asked writers to choose one formative book and tell us about it.
Climate change and the failure of incarnational nerve
Do we really want God to live with us in a poisoned and degraded world?
Love goes to work: Miracles in the midst of dying
The difference between sickness and health depends on the strength of the love at work. It wasn't until I met Mark that I began to understand this.
All creatures
People do not float through life in the bubble that is their skin. We are grounded, dependent beings that live through the lives and deaths of others.
Carbon and compost: Gardening in a time of climate change
There is too much carbon in the atmosphere. What if one of the most compelling responses is to restore the carbon in the ground beneath our feet?
Eating in ignorance
Reconciliation requires relocation. To see the effects of our food choices, we have to get close to the land.
Sunshine-powered: The next agrarian revolution
Today’s transcontinental head of lettuce, grown in California but eaten in Washington, D.C., is emblematic of our dysfunctional food economy. For every calorie of food energy this lettuce provides, roughly 35 calories of fossil fuel energy will have been burned to grow, harvest, process and ship it. Compare this to 60 years ago when one calorie of fossil fuel produced roughly two and a half calories of food. From the standpoints of energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness, we would be better off drinking the oil.
Barnyard dance: Farming that honors animals
America’s food production system is killing us. It relies on the use of fossil fuels, chemicals, growth hormones and antibiotics, and on production and farming practices that erode the soil and deplete the groundwater.An entirely different approach to food production can be glimpsed at Polyface Farm in central Virginia, where Joel Salatin’s Christian faith informs the way he farms and, to the best of his ability, honors the animals.