"Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status-quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy." So proclaims Wendell Berry in his essay "Christianity and the Survival of Creation," from his book Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community (pp. 114-115). A bit further on, Berry argues that Christianity "has flown the flag and chanted…

I've been thinking a lot lately about bodies, probably mostly because I'm a new mom and I'm still trying to wrap my mind around what just happened to my own body. One minute it was there, familiar and reliable, and the next it was gone! Now, two months after our son's birth, I'm starting to see the remnants of my old waistline returning, even as I'm slowly gathering my wits back about me enough to be able to think, albeit…

It seems to me that the environmental crisis is, at heart, a failure and a perversion of the human imagination. Our imaginations have been taken captive by an ecocidal ideology of economic growth that invariably will render us homeless in a world not fit for habitation. If imagination is the issue, then a redirection of our lives towards creation care will not emerge out of statistics of ecological despoliation, as important as those statistics might be. What we need is…

Eating with small children is rarely a dull affair. I remember my son Benjamin years ago standing up in his high chair, lifting his bowl of oatmeal above his head, only to throw it down with the exclamation, "Down went Goliath!" I have little idea about what was going on in his brain. What I do know is that I, as his father, had some teaching to do. Though I was proud of the fact that he had picked up…