It’s disturbing to recognize that in the Noah story, God does the same sort of thing that the Babylonian gods do in their flood story.” That’s what she said, this bold and thoughtful student in world lit class. We had been pondering the flood story in the ancient Sumerian/Babylonian epic Gilgamesh, sorting out the differences from […]
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college life, spirituality
Listen now Steve Bouma-Prediger is professor of religion at Hope College, ecotheologian, and author of For the Beauty of the Earth–among many other books. Here he reflects on examples of refugia in the Bible as well as on the virtues necessary to fulfill our God-given, human responsibility to the earth. For more background… Here is
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Refugia Podcast
Listen Now In this episode, Jamie Skillen, professor of environmental studies at Calvin University, overviews the sometimes tense relationship between Christianity and environmentalism, urging us to aspire toward an “eschatological stewardship.” For more background… To learn more about the Beyond Stewardship book we mention, go here. Jamie’s new book, This Land Is My Land: Rebellion
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Refugia Podcast
“Is this the end of the world?”“It usually is.” That zinger appears near the conclusion of the kooky and wonderful Post-Rapture Radio, Russell Rathbun’s 2008 novel, which inventively satirizes American Evangelicalism for its shallowness and materialism. Toward the end of the novel, an eccentric, quasi-prophetic figure called Idiot John—a stand-in for John of Patmos—responds to another
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Calvin events, climate change