“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time; but if you are here because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” Lilla Watson, Indigenous Australian Activist Hi Folks, It’s been
What? Is there something in my teeth? (by Turtle Farahat, EcoFaith Recovery Intern)
Hello, friends! Happy spring to you! The flowers have been busting out of the ground, and it’s impossible not to catch that energy from them. I love it. So, I realized that I’ve been writing these posts, and have never
Reflecting upon my Lenten Discipline (by Pastor Solveig Nilsen-Goodin, a teacher/leader in our Biocommons course)
[Along with the Wilderness Way Community and its friends, Pastor Solveig Nilsen-Goodin’s Lenten discipline is to spend 10-20 minutes OUTSIDE, every day for 40 days in prayer/meditation/just being (rain or shine)! What follows is her reflection on her practice of
The Problem with Growth (by Cecil Denney, a teacher/leader in our Biocommons Course)
The most important value shared by all of mankind is GROWTH is good and necessary. Consider that as humans, we are dependent on growing up. Growth is considered to be a positive, even essential aspect of life. We look around
The Fire Within. Good News: We All Got It! (by Angie Hummel an EcoFaith Leader participating in the Biocommons Course)
I am Lutheran and Minnesotan. A collective sigh: Ahhhhh! Thus, some may assume I am the epitome of a nice, considerate, poised, ever-smiley human. Except there’s just one clink in the armor: My ancestors did not immigrate to the new
Life as Star Dust – Part 2 of 2 (by Cecil Denney, a teacher/leader in our Biocommons Course)
Please read the first part of this two part blog. Star Dust First a couple of facts (as opposed to beliefs). No one can prove there is a GOD. It is also true that no one can prove there is
Life as Star Dust – Part 1 of 2 (by Cecil Denney, a teacher/leader in our Biocommons Course)
Life as star dust We are all star dust. If you accept our current scientific understanding about the origin of the universe, then you accept the concept of the Big Bang, that event that took place some 13 plus billion
Bishop Dave Brauer-Rieke on Re-imagining Tomorrow – Part 3 of a 3 part series
The Jesus/Salvation arc of modern day Christianity is embraced by the larger Eden/New Jerusalem arc of the Bible as a whole. This story has much to offer as we reflect on the arc of the Cosmic Creation Story. What does
Bishop Dave Brauer-Rieke on Reframing the Faith – Part 2 of 3
Re-framing the Faith Sunrises, however, are not our major stuck point. Seasons are. The words above, “Once again the world engage, blessed with love or pained by rage.” are penned with Tevye in mind. “One season following another, laden with
Bishop Dave Brauer-Rieke’s Presentation to the Biocommons course – Part 1 of 3
Tevye’s Lament Ecology of Grace and Justice: Organizing in the BioCommons Presentation February 22, 2013 St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Beaverton, OR Bishop Dave Brauer-Rieke, Oregon Synod, ELCA Like a Fiddler on the Roof Our understanding of the world is