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The Long Light

For UK Christian leaders, the challenges are fraught and puzzling: how to steward property, how to do church in a changing cultural context. The heavy questions of how many will remain faithful, and what faithfulness now means.

Debra RienstraJune 4, 2021

cultural commentary politics theology

Living on the Fault Lines

Because when you live on the fault lines, you learn to draw boundaries.

Debra RienstraMay 8, 2021

nature theology

God’s Wildness

There’s something revelatory here, something we need to see about the nature of God beyond our systematic theologies and philosophical inquiries.

Debra RienstraApril 24, 2021

nature theology

Sacramental Transparency

The ordinary stuff of the physical world, the very fundamentals of survival provided by God, are transformed through human art and through the blessing of the Spirit, and they become means of grace.

Debra RienstraJanuary 30, 2021

climate change nature spirituality theology

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

nature theology

No One Will Make Them Afraid: The Arborist’s Bible

One can compare one’s beloved to apple, palm, pomegranate, or incense trees. And it’s clear that all the good stuff happens under apple trees.

Debra RienstraJuly 11, 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

climate change nature theology

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

nature spirituality theology

Learning about Gratitude from the Onondaga

I realize we’re planning way ahead here, but if you happen to be in charge of an Easter Vigil service next spring, you should definitely order a big beeswax candle for the occasion. Why? Because in the ancient liturgical prayer for Easter Eve, called the…

Debra RienstraJuly 20, 2019

climate change theology

Does Theology Make Us Passive on Climate Change?

“Does ‘image of God’ make us lazy?” I jotted this in my notebook earlier this week, between phrases like “hinge point in history” and “geophysical tipping point.” I was listening to a lecture by Kathleen Dean Moore, a moral philosopher, nature writer, and environmental activist.…

Debra RienstraMarch 16, 2019

theology

The Long Light

Living on the Fault Lines

God’s Wildness

Sacramental Transparency

Shrub Whispering

No One Will Make Them Afraid: The Arborist’s Bible

Cultivating Ecological Virtues: An Interview with Steven Bouma-Prediger

Thirty Days, Thirty Books

Learning about Gratitude from the Onondaga

Does Theology Make Us Passive on Climate Change?

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