“Sometimes you have no other choice than to stand.” In a way, they seemed like such mundane words. No elaborate imagery. No eloquent vocabulary. Nothing that probably hadn’t been said by someone else, somewhere else. And yet, her
Winter Break & Website Revamp (by Intern Chloe Mankin)
The last four months since my original blog post have been busy. My winter break was dedicated to Jimmy Johns’ and revamping the old EcoFaith website. My mom and I would sit in the living room; I would be in
Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril (a book review by Pastor Mark Brocker of St. Andrew Lutheran Church)
Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril. Edited by Lisa E. Dahill and James B. Martin-Schramm. Foreword by Bill McKibben. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2016. 283 pp. An informal group of theologians, teachers, pastors, and lay people in
In Deep Relationship with Place: Singing Someone’s Song To Them (Sarah Holst)
“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
Dear EcoFaith Interns, Leaders, and Friends (Molly Hartshorn)
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
Radically Responsible Settler Gardening Practices (Sarah Holst)
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
Third and Last Ecofaith Recovery Retreat (by Intern Michelle Piscitelli)
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
Reflections on EcoFaith Recovery’s “Waters of Justice” retreat by Deb Schulz, a leader from Bethlehem Lutheran Church
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
Red Clover Farm (by Intern Jason Wood)
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
Reflections on the EcoFaith Institute of June, 2016 by Sue Koger
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