Muscular Ecological Hope
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Muscular Ecological Hope

We are living in high-stake times. Recent studies indicate that young people are especially aware of this. As many as 60 percent of youth and young adults are extremely worried about climate change and more than half report feeling anxious, angry, powerless and even guilty about the state of the environment. The scariest part is…

What good is a front lawn?
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What good is a front lawn?

Last year, my front lawn was a strip of grass that I occasionally pestered my husband to mow. But after reading more about the importance of biodiversity, I understood that replacing monoculture with native plants is one way to show love to my creaturely neighbours. So last spring, I dug out my grass and put…

Come and eat
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Come and eat

It was my sister-in-law who first pointed out to me that there is free food going to waste all over our neighbourhood. Every growing season, fruit trees hang over the fences of yards and spill into streets and alleyways. The neighbour who owns one of these trees tells me that the fruit is free for…

Yahweh takes on Mammon
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Yahweh takes on Mammon

Earlier this year, the price of an average house in Hamilton Ontario, where I live, crossed the million dollar threshold. In fact, we are on pace for the average house to be two million in three or four years. Statisticians are saying that only the wealthiest five percent of Canadians can buy a house here….

For the sake of the earth
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For the sake of the earth

What if I told you that the best way for you to transform the world is to do less? Those of us who weren’t frontline workers, parents with children at home or vaccine researchers had plenty of time to practice “doing less” over the past two years. I, for one, spent a lot of evenings…

Living proof

Living proof

I give myself over to rhythms of prayer because in the Western world today, one of the most effective apologetics we can give is our own transformed selves, and sitting in the presence of Jesus is transformational.