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Wheels Without Wheels – Out of Sync with Creation

Not long ago I was reading a 26 year old essay by Wendell Berry (“Two Economies” – included in Berry, The Art of the Commonplace) in which he refers to a short section of a 200 year old poem by William...

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A most interesting and subversive Christmas Carol

This post is the Christmas letter my wife and I have just sent out to our friends and financial partners in our ministry.  Suspecting that a few of the regular visitors to Our Father’s World might not...

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Old Literature – but surprisingly relevant

Our environmental problems aren’t quite as new as we sometimes think they are.  Here, some lessons from an old, old poem:  (Originally published Jan 7, 2009) A good friend, who doesn’t think himself an...

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Reviving a Sense of Wonder

The first of Andrea Ebley’s monthly posts on the blog.   wonder n : rapt attention or astonishment at something awesomely mysterious or new to one’s experience Children embody the definition of wonder,...

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Sun Worship in Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park, courtesy of Lowell Bliss Lowell Bliss’ monthly post. For seven of the years my family and I lived in Varanasi, India, we resided in a house right on the western banks of...

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Hope – A Lesson From Nature

When autumn turns to winter, When all the colors disappear, When the leaves have fallen and the trees are left naked and bare,   When the world is ashen and forlorn, And darkness creeps in a bit...

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Renewal – A Lesson From Nature

When winter turns to spring, When the colors start to reappear, When the snow has melted and the ground can once again see the sun,When the world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful, And sunshine...

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The Butterfly Effect: Praise God!

There’s something about butterflies. Malachite butterfly MILENIUSZ SPANOWICZ/WCS Madidi National Park, located in northern Bolivia, holds at least 1,500 species of butterfly.  That’s more butterfly...

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What’s in a logo?

A new logo and a new look! Care of Creation is 11 years old now, and we’ve been using the same logo for about the last 8 years, I think. Before that, we didn’t really have a logo – hey, we were still...

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