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Cultivating Communion
What does it mean for us to see our food system as the community table known as the communion table?
Cultivating Communion
What would it mean for us to actually see our food system as the community table known as the communion table?
Cultivating Good Fruit (by Careful Pruning)
The choices of when, what, and how to prune involve science, art, and faith.
Cultivating a Thriving Local Food Economy
A thriving food economy is relational - shaped by trust between farmers and eaters, by knowledge passed across generations, and by decisions that consider people, land, and future impacts together.
Cultivating Resistance
Our baptismal vows are to resist evil, proclaim Good News, love neighbors, strive for justice and peace. How is that happening in Minnesota these days?
Cultivating Healing
What is required for us to be healers? How do we cultivate, promote, increase, and encourage healing? And what becomes of us if we don't?
Cultivating Redemption
How can redemption of an abandoned barn or farmhouse give us hints on how redemption is available for us as well?
Cultivating Justice
Restorative justice helps both victim and oppressor
in becoming whole and is marked by generosity, equality, advocacy and responsibility.
in becoming whole and is marked by generosity, equality, advocacy and responsibility.
Cultivating Awe
Awe has a way of putting us in our place -- and our place is not at the center of the universe.
Cultivating Community
We need to affirm and value what everyone brings to the table, to be inclusive enough that all can feel that they belong.
A New Season on Cultivating
What needs and wants to be cultivated in the world - and within me?
Welcome Home
There is a longing for home that lingers and an opportunity to give and receive the incarnational gift of being known, loved, and cared for.
compass points - heading home
Context is critical in determining the compass points which can point us toward home.
wilderness wandering
Life's disruptions can be disorienting - a wilderness - that can only be navigated by naming it.
poetry in silence
There is poetry all around that invites us in to a greater connection, a more focused attention, and a deeper affection which can bring us home.
Food Memories
In the Divided States of America, there is something so intimate and personal between us that will never change, cannot be taken away, and continues to bring us home to one another - the sharing of food memories.
Home is a Song
food memories that never leave us; threads of connection which always bring us home.
Coming Home - Shelling Peas
how are peas like rosary beads? how can purple fingers bring us home?
Coming Home
We carry the memories of what we need to keep from home - and we set down whatever we need to put behind us - even as we make home in new places.
Cowbirds and Cicadas
The cicadas music is a fearless song of resistance in the oppressive heat of summer.
No Words
Can a silent message of our presence be more helpful than words in response to grief? Ask the land.
No One Greater
A birthday celebration on Summer Solstice and its effect on water conservation.
Watershed Discipleship
How our relationship with our watershed is a reflection of our Christian discipleship.
...and Water!
Soil and Water are inseparable but there is something else needed for them to help each other.
Behavior modification - THINK!
When conventional practices are killing us, maybe we should help each modify our behavior.
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