The Great Chicken Adventure [In Five Acts]
This is the saga of “Big Red Mama and Her Friends”: A Great 2-hour Adventure about Getting Chickens in 5 Acts...Papa sets out with James, Bella, and Kats to get the chickens from Mrs. Jan’s farm. On...
View ArticleMerton and Rushkoff: A Call To Exodus
"We’re living in a totalitarian society. It’s not fascist in a political sense, but in the way that it’s economically organized. It’s organized for profit and for marketing. In that machinery there’s...
View ArticleYear of Plenty (book review)
Year of Plenty is an insightful, profound yet humorous narrative that provides a refreshing perspective on the intersection between Christian faith and issues of economy, environment, community,...
View ArticleBack to the Land: the View From Here
We slowly are settling back in to life among the mountains and streams again here in Bedford County, Virginia. Our life is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination - but we are abundantly...
View ArticleReclaiming the Temple: The Beginning
The Lord spoke to me through that; it is time to reclaim the temple, rededicate it to Him, and wait for the miracles from Him, miracles of oil to continue when I don't have enough. And so this is where...
View ArticleReclaiming the Temple: Day Four
Reclaiming the temple is really reclaiming my life; my thoughts, emotions and talents. This is where rededicating it all to the Lord comes in. He wants all of it. Not because He needs it or is some...
View ArticleReclaiming the Temple: Ponderings
So, I have many things floating around in my mind. Many things I need to sort through. Sweet food is my way to de-stress. So I wonder; is that wrong to use food in this way? I don't think it is. I...
View ArticleBecoming People of a Place
Maybe we need to rethink the accomplishments of travel. Maybe the fewer the places someone has been, the more reason to celebrate. Maybe my mom’s lack of travel has blessed her with something that I...
View ArticleJournal of a New Agrarian: Killing Chickens
We are missing something fundamental in how we think about and practice meat eating. A lost agrarian skill - killing chickens - connects life and death. The post Journal of a New Agrarian: Killing...
View ArticleBecoming a Rooted Church: Letter From Brazil
(Editor’s Note: I met my friend Claudio Oliver several years back, and by way of video calls or emails have always highly valued our conversations about discipleship to Jesus, sustainable living,...
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