The thing that I learned from my time working at the Justice Department is that good policy and making good policy takes time. It takes thoughtfulness. It takes deliberation. It’s not crafted in late-night tweets.
Refugia are places where we are content to be small for a while. To wait, to be quiet, to practice simple virtues like hospitality and empathy. To build capacity on a small scale to prepare us for regrowth.
You’re at the intersection there of sky and light and water and earth. You’re in the four elements; they’re right there at the shore with you. And I think that kind of magic is what has always drawn people here.
Episode 11 Jazz on the Dunes: David Jellema and the Colony at Lost Valley Read More »
Refugia Podcast
You just do the next thing that’s possible to do and you hope that what that does is it grows into something that will live.
Maybe this is why my favorite songs on the album are the most melancholy.
Cutover Dreams: Michigan Folk Songs Updated Read More »
cultural commentary, Michigan, nature, pop culture
It’s… loss. It really is. It’s the sense that we are losing our biological richness. It’s disappearing before our eyes. And if there are people that care about it, within a generation it becomes a memory, in the next generation it becomes an abstraction.
Journalist and recent seminary grad Jeff Chu ponders the intersection of theology and farming, then describes the Evolving Faith Conference and other places of healing and fresh imagination for people who are, for whatever reason, feeling on the margins of the church.
Episode 8 Dying and Rising: Jeff Chu on Composting, Evolving Faith, and Pop-Up Refugia Read More »
Refugia Podcast