Submerged Roots, Living Waters: A Scriptural Ecology of Life
Today I am thinking about rootedness. Jeremiah 17 speaks of rootedness on land beside the river, and Ezekiel 47 speaks of trees with leaves for healing: a biblical vision of rootedness in which trees participate in God’s sustaining and healing ecology. A tree does not begin where we can see it. What appears above the…
When defiance meets the law
The story that is commonly referred to as the woman with the hemorrhages or the woman who touched Jesus’s garment is recorded in Matthew 9, Mark 5, and Luke 8. (Do you see her fingers reaching out for the tassels through the crowds in the image). The woman is said to have consulted physicians (Mark…
Marked by Us: A Visio Divina Lament for the Earth
This is a Visio Divina lament. It can be used for individual or communal lament reflecting ecological grief and our role in it. Participants are invited to pray. The Visio Divina practice guides participants through seeing, noticing, lamenting, and responding to God, drawing on biblical language of lament and creation care. Pick any one of the…
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