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Season of Creation Liturgy: An Interim Report

We are observing the Season of Creation for the first time this year, and as is our custom, we’ve put together our own liturgy. I’d like to report on how it’s been going.

Debra RienstraSeptember 25, 2021

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Reading the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: Another Hot Take

No matter what we do, things will get worse.

Debra RienstraAugust 14, 2021

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Can Artists Help in the Climate Fight?

Art has the power to weasel behind our defenses, awaken us emotionally, disturb the smooth surfaces of our certainties.

Debra RienstraJuly 3, 2021

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Endlessly Remarkable Quiddity

Like most butterflies, monarchs specialize in one host plant: in their case, it’s milkweed. That’s their nursery. Accept no substitutes.

Debra RienstraJune 19, 2021

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An Interview with the Planet Earth: Outlook for a Biden Presidency

Earth: Look, I try not to pay much attention to human politics. I have so much to do, what with plate techtonics and weather systems and sustaining various kingdoms and phyla of creatures. Plus I operate on loooooong time scales, you know? Still, my current…

Debra RienstraNovember 14, 2020

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Shrub Whispering

Questions of what more-than-human creatures are worth, what they mean, what is their ultimate value—these questions become more urgent as the species extinction crisis accelerates.

Debra RienstraAugust 8, 2020

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Conference of the Creatures

“Creatures, our free forty minutes are almost up. So I just want to encourage you all and review our mission objectives. It’s been great to have some relief from the humans for a while, but this is all for a bigger purpose."

Debra RienstraApril 18, 2020

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Cultivating Ecological Virtues: An Interview with Steven Bouma-Prediger

We must increase our capacity for and interest in virtues and their formation, especially in this time of climate crisis, not succumb to a belief that “Oh well, there is little interest in being just or courageous, so I guess this business of virtue ethics…

Debra RienstraFebruary 22, 2020

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Thirty Days, Thirty Books

The guiding question for my reading is this: how will our spirituality (and our churches) need to change in order to survive the unprecedented challenges ahead, particularly the climate crisis? Here’s what I’m learning so far.

Debra RienstraJanuary 25, 2020

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Everything Causes a Scintillation: Review of Robert Macfarlane’s Underland, Lost Words, and Spell Songs

Macfarlane’s journeys, remarkable as much for the philosophical and emotional strain as for the physical rigors they demanded, uncover what underlands mean to us: in these hidden worlds, we shelter what we treasure, dispose of what we fear, and coax the earth to yield what…

Debra RienstraJanuary 11, 2020

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Season of Creation Liturgy: An Interim Report

Reading the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: Another Hot Take

Can Artists Help in the Climate Fight?

Endlessly Remarkable Quiddity

An Interview with the Planet Earth: Outlook for a Biden Presidency

Shrub Whispering

Conference of the Creatures

Cultivating Ecological Virtues: An Interview with Steven Bouma-Prediger

Thirty Days, Thirty Books

Everything Causes a Scintillation: Review of Robert Macfarlane’s Underland, Lost Words, and Spell Songs

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