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Rusty is a natural resource economist, the President and Co-founder of Flourish, and adjunct faculty in Environmental Studies at Emory University.

Welcome to the Creation Care Community.

Join us here each week for ideas and news that will stimulate your thinking about caring for all of God’s creation.

Declaring the Lordship of Christ over all creation

Colossians 1:15-20

Lowell "Rusty" Pritchard, Jr.,

Creation Care Community Editor

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Featured Article:
Seasonal Eating Is an Act of Justice and Taste
by Rachel Stone

Though January is often the time for making resolutions, when it comes to the practice of seasonal eating, the spring and summer months are, for many folks, the best time to start. Its a little hard > Read More

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New Articles

•	Don’t Walk Alone: Doing walkability audits as a church community by Kendra Langdon Juskus Walkability’s green attractions are just a part of a greater goal–healthy and flourishing communities. Learn how to help your church become the focal point of a of walkable, healthy community. > Read More

•	How the Church of the Future Will Do Creation Care by Norman Wirzba Stewardship requires skill and understanding. But what it needs above all is love and affection. We will not adequately care for each other and for creation until we learn to see our care as the grate > Read More

•	Christian Environmental Stewardship: Not Just Cheap, Not Just Green by Kendra Langdon Juskus As Calvin B. DeWitt wrote in Earth-Wise, Personal happiness, joy, and fulfillment are not what we seek first of all in life. Instead we seek the kingdom of God and strive toward making Gods creation > Read More

•	Front Porch Revival: The Past, Present, and Possibility of a Neighborhood Mainstay by Kendra Langdon Juskus As the days get warmer and longer and summer begins to seep into our skin, we cant help but be beguiled by a particularly sweet summer fantasy: the idea of reclining on a porch swing with a good book > Read More

•	Praying Confidently in the Midst of Disaster by Scott Williams As I watch images of the Gulf Coast Oil Spillof oil spilling out at an alarming rate and of the damage already causedI cant help but feel overwhelmed and underprepared. What do we do? What can we d > Read More

Featured Ministry

Oil Spill Prayer is an initiative sponsored by Creation Hope, an organization whose purpose is to educate and mobilize Christians to fulfill their call to care for God’s creation and bring hope to a broken world. Oil Spill Prayer seeks to unite Christians and churches in the gulf coast, across the United States, and around the world in prayer about the Gulf Coast Oil Spill.

Highlights, News & Events

Care of Creation and Eden Vigil announce a Consultation of Missions and Creation Care Leaders for the purpose of developing a profile of an environmental missionary, and then designing a curriculum to serve that profile. Coursework will then be offered in 2011 as the Summer Institute of Environmental Missions. The consultation will be July 12-16 on an 89-acre farm south of Manhattan, KS.

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Featured Article
"Walking to Justice"
by Rusty Pritchard
Making cities safe for pedestrians has multiple and far-reaching benefits.(Jan/Feb 2010)

Relevant Products in Creation Care

Green Like God by Jonathan Merritt invites Christians to embrace creation care with an undivided heart.