One of my favorite authors is Barbara Kingsolver. My uncle gave me my first fictional book by her called The Poisonwood Bible. As I was working as a missionary at the time it really caught me up short in some not so pleasant ways and challenge how I viewed my “call”. Since that time I’ve [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Simple Living
Posted in Simplicity on August 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
People dive into the world of simplicity for many reasons and mean many different things by it. So here’s a little of what it means for me and my family.
Simplicity is a means of identifying ourselves with our sisters and brothers around the world. (A story told to me by a college student returning from [...]
The Summer Laundry Challenge
Posted in Community, Environmental Issues, Laundry, Simplicity, tagged Laundry, Simplicity, sustainability on August 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the intersections of active spirituality and practical faith for me has been to see in which ways I can be more environmentally aware. My current challenge for the summer was to hang as much laundry outside as possible from May through October. It’d be no problem of course, right? Just let the kids [...]
The Revolution Starts at Home
Posted in Whole-Life Faith, tagged Add new tag on August 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Making coffee to open our eyes in the morning, food preparation to sustain our bodies, washing clothes, cleaning our homes, nurturing our children, sleeping (maybe?). The list goes on. These activities and hundreds more like them take significant blocks of time out of our days and weeks. In our society which tries [...]
The Laundry Monster
Posted in Family Life, Whole-Life Faith on August 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Laundry is one of those chores that people either love or hate. When I talk to people who do a lot of housework laundry and dishes come up as the top two in the Ugh! factor. For me I actually quite enjoy it. Eliacin and I started our married life in Puerto [...]
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