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Lessons from kickball
I gave the ball a good, hard kick. It took flight and landed in a neighbor’s garden. I ran the bases and was headed for home when I got nervous—not about the ball’s landing in the neighbor’s garden, but about getting hit by the ball and getting called “out” before I reached home.
Baptism in once-troubled waters
In the distant past, our two groups had fought in court over water rights to that spring. But Bryseydi Diaz was holding firm. She would settle for nothing less than a river baptism.
The gift of sustaining love
Interstate 65 cuts through a massive wind farm in Northern Indiana. Driving through it from my Illinois home to the Happy Corner Church of the Brethren in Clayton, Ohio, last week, I got to thinking about a few different kinds of energy. For human beings, energy comes from many places—rest, work, space, closeness—and we all
Changing the climate with justice, mercy, and humility
What if, in choosing to consume less stuff, we got greater clarity about where true sources of contentment may be found?
The power of small
For Washington City Church of the Brethren, smallness can cause worry and doubt—but it also has provided a path to new life and renewal
Faith that calls for pumpkin-esk patience
He looked at the field and laughed out loud. “I never noticed how funny looking pumpkins were,” he said.
Sacred Surprises
In the quiet of a Wednesday dusk, gathered around a candle and a table full of food, my friends and I accidentally found ourselves having church.
Let your light shine
As the sunset fades and night deepens, streetlights, shop lights, and headlights shine, and I am reminded that it is in the darkness that the light shines brightest
Creating a climate for a new life
On a sunny day in May of 2014, Germany generated a record
74 percent of its electricity renewably…Perhaps more surprisingly, Costa Rica currently generates at least 90 percent of its electricity renewably; earlier this year, its national electric utility supplied its citizens with 100 percent fossil fuel-free electricity for a world-record 75 straight days. Denmark, meanwhile, is on pace to achieve total independence from fossil fuels in 35 years, meeting all of its electricity, transportation, heating, and cooling needs with renewables by 2050.
