The goal of this series is to see how the principles of permaculture, the discipline of living, working, and creating sustainably within one’s environment, might interact with Christian faith to help us, as individuals and as communities, find ways of living faithfully for the long haul, without burning out, flaming out, or getting snuffed out. … Continue reading A Faith that Lasts: Observe and Understand
If we look at ‘how the world works’ right now, it’s clear that things aren’t actually working. Our economic systems are benefiting fewer and fewer people, our education systems are focused on making ‘good workers’ more than good, informed, and critical-thinking citizens, our community organizations are emptying out even in the midst of a loneliness … Continue reading A Faith that Lasts: Introduction
One of my areas of learning over the summer has been permaculture, particularly as people are applying it to communities. One of the most interesting conversations going on in that space is the problem of scalability: how to get the micro and macro to functioning together based on the same values and principles. A common … Continue reading Fractal Faith
The other week in the post on the character strength of Perspective as good spiritual fruit, I brought up the old proverb about losing the forest through the trees. This saying came up again this morning as I was reading the Gospel. Jesus is in the middle of a diatribe against the “scribes and Pharisees,” … Continue reading The Forest and the Trees (A reflection on Matthew 23.23-26)
Matthew Root 