For the Recovery of Life and the Healing of Creation
“Apply yourself to stories as soul vitamins, observations, map fragments, little pieces of pine pitch for fastening feathers to trees to show the way…Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important when the inner life is
There are many methods of engaging with Practice #3 of Telling Our Stories, both verbal and nonverbal. I’d like to take a moment and engage with the method of using words, and recount an experience from a Standing Rock visit
As the historical gathering of Water Protectors blocking the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation continues, people from all around the world are seeing the legacy of colonialism and environmental racism play out before their
The third and last Ecofaith recovery retreat was very bittersweet. Getting to work with not one, but TWO pastors was a lot of fun. Hearing all the ideas that were being formulated in the planning meetings and starting to visualize
Editorial note: Chloe is one of our EcoFaith Recovery intern. This is her first blog post. Welcome Chloe! When I first started this EcoFaith Recovery internship, I had recently graduated from West Linn High School and was looking to fill
“To grow and share food with others in a garden is to enter into a holy country, Fred Bahnson writes in his book Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith. For the next couple hundred pages then,
SEPTEMBER 2016 Getting ready for the September retreat was a completely different experience from the first two. We had a larger team and it was a lot more organized when we shared. I liked how the team was larger because
Editor’s note: Deb Schulz is a leader from Bethlehem Lutheran Church, which is located in Portland Oregon. Last weekend I attended a retreat hosted by St. Andrew Lutheran Church and EcoFaith Recovery. It was the third of a series entitled
Editor’s note: Jason is our newest EcoFaith Recovery intern. Jason and his wife Anna live in Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, where they seek to practice radical hospitality as part of the Servants Vancouver Community. This is his first blog
Sue Koger is an EcoFaith Recovery leader from First Congregational United Church of Christ is Salem, Oregon. She shares her reflections on EcoFaith’s first Weekend Institute which was held a few weeks ago in Portland, Oregon and on Eloheh Farm in