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In conjunction with Nativity’s efforts to serve as a catalyst for launching carbon farming in NC (see Caring for Creation blog posts on August 28 and December 3, 2016), Nativity is offering a series of events beginning on April 22 (Earth Day) and going to the end of May. The first event will be a […]

Emilie and I love our blueberries. So do the squirrels, birds, deer, and geese. For that reason we have planted lots of blueberry bushes outside the fence. In fact, almost two-thirds of our bushes are growing outside our bird protected area. There is a biblical basis for sharing our harvest in this way. As Ellen

As I think about the current state of politics in our country from an ethical perspective, I am reminded of what Ellen Davis, Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School wrote in her book, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture concerning agricultural ethics. “Currently, there are active in our culture two opposing agricultural ethics,

In his book, Soil and Sacrament:A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith, Fred Bahnson says the verbs avad and shamar in Genesis 2:15 have been translated mistakenly as “till” and “keep”. This conclusion is based on the philological work of Old Testament scholar Ellen Davis (Duke Divinity School), who has explored how these words were

In the beginning God provided the resources for life of every kind on Earth, and God said that it was good (Genesis 1). After creating humankind, God set us apart from the rest of creation by giving us the responsibility to both till and keep the garden of Eden (Genesis 2:15). When humankind inherited the

On June 22 the Capital Area Food Network (CAFN) will host a free food summit, Moving Beyond Hunger: Food Systems for Food Security in Raleigh. CAFN is a community of Wake County citizens working together to support, sustain, and improve our local food system. CAFN was developed out of the effort of the Raleigh Wake

On Thursday, April 21, during the City of Raleigh’s annual Environmental Awards presentation parishioner Charly Kerr was recognized for his outstanding work on environmental stewardship. Charly owns the Chick-fil-A restaurant at 8860 Six Forks Rd. For several years, he has been out to demonstrate to the world that within the fast food industry vast improvements

I am pleased to post this contribution to the Nativity Caring for Creation blog from Dargan Gilmore. It is an election year, and that means that candidates and their super-PACs are hard at work trying to polarize the issues. Instead of trying to bring people together, it always seems that we are being asked to

In many respects our very well being and the future of our civilization is connected to the health of the earth. We have become alienated from nature in an unprecedented way and we have not been good stewards. Our broken relationship with creation is a reflection of our disrespect for God and for one another.