The sundering of Christian practice from nature has separated untold numbers of people from experiencing and caring for the entire world as filled with divine presence. It has left conservation without its most basic rationale – that nature is a bearer of the sacred, inherently worthy of reverence. And it has fueled human destruction of the Earth in biblical proportion. Of course Christians should care about the earth. In practice, though, what does caring for the earth mean in Christian life and community? What does it look like? This project seeks to address this need in the oldest way, by telling a story.

Through the experiences and insights of a (previously) unchurched ecologist, now called to be pastor and priest, who has seen the riches of the Christian tradition with fresh eyes and is putting this wealth into practice, this is a story given that others also may re-connect love of God and love of nature. Coming at a time when the church as we have known it is decaying and life on earth as we have known it is fraying, we need stories of new life to heal the world. This story, to be written and (God willing) published as a book, is one.