In many areas, local journalism is in crisis. It is difficult to fund voices telling the stories unique to a community. As the Brookings Institute…
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Poetry
Order Order!
by Wendell Wiebe-Powell
Somewhere between the two…listening and truth telling…sighting the moon through the aperture of a strange tree in the woods…this poem began to stir.
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Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp and MDS
Volunteers Take on Spruce Beetles
by Kate Strathdee
Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp, Divide, Colo., recently suffered damage from spruce beetles. With the help of Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers, the camp removed over 400 trees–minimizing both a fire and a falling hazard. (more…)
One Level Up
From Energy Audits to the Watershed Way
by Kate Strathdee Albuquerque Mennonite Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a congregation of about 200 that has been working on creation care in various ways…
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The Cedar Has Fallen
The Prophetic Word vs Clear Cutting
While many organizations such as the Mennonite Men are planting trees, old growth trees continue to be cut down in locations such as British Columbia. Despite calls from biblical prophets, environmentalists, activists, Indigenous people, and faith leaders, governments and businesses are committed to old-growth logging. (more…)
For in [Christ] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
Colossians 1:19 - 20