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Sowing Seeds for a New Creation
In this particular parable, the farmer who is scattering seeds on the ground has no idea how the seeds sprout and grow. It is not by the sowers efforts that a bountiful harvest comes to fruition. This is how it is with the kingdom of God, Jesus says. The kingdom is inaugurated according to God’s will and purpose, and we cannot know when or how this will happen.
Summer of Advocacy 2026: Counting the Cost, Claiming Our Power
There is scripture from my own Christian tradition that reminds us that before anything is built, there must first be a counting of the cost (Luke 14:28). Not just the financial cost but the spiritual, communal, and generational cost of our decisions. In this season, we are asking a deeper question: What is the true cost of fossil fuels and who is paying for it?
The Work Continues: A Legislative Session Reflection
The 2026 legislative session has come to a close, but our advocacy is far from over. Because of your engagement this session, we made a meaningful difference on every one of our priority issues. Your actions mattered. This was not simply a session where good bills failed to pass. It was a session where sustained pressure stopped bad outcomes and forced better ones into view.
Eco-Poetry as Spiritual Practice
For me, reading poetry is like seeing the world again for the first time, especially when it comes to ecopoetry.
Instead of merely writing about nature as if it were a distant, untouchable object, ecopoetry immerses the human imagination in the world of the natural environment, drawing on our human connection, for better or for worse, to our shared, Sacred Earth.
Can These Bones Live?
All of these things are connected. When we protect our planet, we protect people. When we care for the lost, the least, the hungry, the unhoused, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, we are making our planet more whole. And the scripture says that once the bones are reassembled, new life — the Spirit — will come from the four winds, from every direction, from places you could not even fathom, breathing new life into worn-out bodies.