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The Godless Creation

September 27, 2022 By Scott Robinson 2 Comments

I used to quote this passage to my students at the evangelical university where I taught for ten years. They always nodded in sage agreement, murmuring appreciatively—until I told them the verse wasn’t from the Bible. It’s an Islamic hadith, one of a large collection of wisdom sayings that complement and amplify the Qur’an.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Saints Tagged With: creation, godchild, St. Francis

Saint Francis: For the Love of God

October 4, 2021 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

I approach the Blessing of the Animals as an opportunity to share the reality that we are stewards of creation.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Saints Tagged With: animals, creation, school, St. Francis

How Reconnecting with Nature Helped Me Reconnect with God

July 30, 2021 By Oscar Collins Leave a Comment

Little did I know that reconnecting with nature and my inner being would help me reconnect with God, too.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: creation, nature, summer, travel

Comfort for Stubbed Toes

June 28, 2021 By Laura Shaver 3 Comments

Our five-year-old son is notorious for running around outside barefoot and showing back up on the doorstep with a bleeding stubbed toe. It has not mattered how many times this has occurred, how many reminders we give to put on shoes, or how much it hurts him in the moment, the boy does this over and over again.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: creation, pain, parenting, psalm

Nature Study and the Awe of God

June 21, 2020 By Emily Watkins Leave a Comment

Some of my earliest memories are exploring the forty-five acre farm I grew up on. I remember my cousin showing me how to find spit bugs and thinking it was a miracle that hundreds of these little bugs were there wrapped under leaves and yet I had never seen them before.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: creation, God, nature, parenting

Empty Nest

May 26, 2019 By Anne Warner 2 Comments

My mom texted a picture to all seven of us kids at the end of August after Nathan, my youngest brother and twenty years my junior, left for his freshman year of college. “In the first week of empty nesting we found an empty nest!” she wrote.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: creation, mindfulness, nature, parenting

Engaging Wonderment on the Lesser Feast Day of John Muir

April 22, 2019 By Beth Bojarski Leave a Comment

Recently on a car ride, my four-year-old asked my ecologically-minded fifth grader and me the question, ‘Why do trees grow?’

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: childhood, cloud of witnesses, creation, environment, nature, wonder

The Gob-Smacking Nature of Grace

January 12, 2019 By Cara Meredith 1 Comment

The scene generally looks the same: after my older son and I pick up his brother at preschool, I have a choice to make. Do I take the shorter route, the one that winds down MacArthur and through the center of town, complete with stoplights and traffic and grit galore? Or do I take the back roads that take a few minutes longer but guarantees a glimpse of the magical view?

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Celebrating Creation Prayerfully, Day by Day

October 4, 2017 By Nurya Love Parish Leave a Comment

A new book of daily devotions – in watercolor and word – celebrates the beauty of Creation.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: art, creation, devotions, For the Beauty of the Earth, Forward Movement, Kathrin Burleson, Prayer

Hiking our way: rebuilding our church’s youth group

September 20, 2017 By Miriam McKenney 2 Comments

“How did I get here?” I thought. “More importantly, how do I get out?”

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Prayer Tagged With: creation, God, hike, hiking, nature, Prayer, teenagers, teens, youth group

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