Dear Green Lake Before my five year departure from Washington, I walked the frozen shores with the woman who is now my wife and after that walk, made a decision to propose.  When we left Seattle in 1979, we grieved.  Little did we know that, 16 years later, we’d return with our young family as I followed my calling to Bethany Community Church, just a few hundred yards from the lake! My love affair with you reignited instantly and in these subsequent 25 years, I’ve run at leas

a book about the importance of opening oneself to direct encounter with creation, in preparation for a  40 day hike in the Alps this summer.  The author offers some of the best prose I’ve digested in a long time, but more significantly, exposes the frightful momentum in our culture towards a disembodied existence, spending most of our lives shielded by houses and screens from what God teaches us through cold and heat, wet and dry, light and dark, seasons. David Abram  recalls

And there are lots of other ideas as well, tens of thousands of “medium ideas” that have been shaping forces in still significant ways:  Dorothy Day and the Catholic workers.  Bill Hybels and the ‘seeker friendly church’.  Bill Gates and software.  Steve Jobs.  Google.  Facebook.  Henry Ford and the automobile.  Human flight.  Eisenhower’s national highway project, Earth Day, and countless others at global, national, and local levels that have been impactful for better worse,

Dr. Sleeth gives us a hint of the issue when he writes that “to reduce traffic congestion during the Olympics, the city of Atlanta closed the downtown area to car traffic, increased access to public transportation through additional buses and tyrains, and promoted flexible work schedules, carpooling, and telecommuting for Atlanta workers.  The result:  for seventeen days, peak daily ozone concentrations decreased 28%.  Concurrently, acute asthma events dropped as much as 44%.