Gathering Up Fragments In a Culture of Waste
Every day, we vote for the world we want to live in through the choices we make. Picking up the fragments and living within our means are good choices.
Leaves for Healing: Peace and Plants
The tree, with it leaves mediating “healing to the nations,” is our mission (Revelation 22:2). It helps us choose how we orient our hearts and live our lives here and now.
A Veggie Diet and the Desert Fathers
I long for a theology of divine compassion and love in this world. God cares for us deeply, but His compassion isn’t for us alone.
Good Health and Love
“Do no harm. Do all the good you can. Stay in love with God.” — John Wesley
Body and World: Building Resistance for the Future
As Wendell Berry says, “Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation” (The Body and the Earth, p. 99).
Pigs, Legions, Demons, and a Liberating God
Jesus tells us that if a sheep falls into a pit, it should be rescued (Matthew 12:11). But what about a pig falling over a cliff? How can I understand a Jesus who drove 2,000 pigs to their deaths?
Jesus Loves Fish
Jesus was not a vegetarian while He was here on earth, but might we consider Him one now?
Climate Change and Creation Justice—Three Angels Flying in the Gap
“Because God created nature, it demands our reverence” C.S. Lewis If I care about the planet and its animals and maintain a plant-based diet, am I…
Giving Thanks: What I’ll Be Eating for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a time to cultivate gratitude. It is a time to celebrate all that we are thankful for. It is a time to remind ourselves to practice love.
Celebrating Creation: A True Pro-Life Ethic
That some wrest a pro-life ethic into an authoritarian morality focused on proselytizing a fundamentalist agenda should not be cause to dismiss the sanctity of life. What we need is a consistent theology for life across the board.
Theological InTents 