When can compromise be life-giving?
When can compromise be life-giving?
Eating from a narrower range of ingredients which can be used for a variety of dishes reduces food waste.
It’s May. It’s graduation season, and it’s the time to celebrate academic achievement and see folks off to what’s new. This year I got to celebrate my youngest brother Isaac’s graduation from high school.
Ascension Day, celebrated forty days after Easter, remembers Christ ascending into heaven before his disciples. It can seem abstract compared to the drama of Easter or Pentecost. Yet gardening has made me wonder whether that hiddenness is part of its wisdom.
I’m curious how many Anabaptist World readers will still be feeling Easter by the Thursday after. It’s an interesting thing to contemplate as I write during Holy Week. Right now, I can feel the swell of both passion and introspection. The time feels thick. And yet, even as I’m immersed in this week, I know next week will be very different.
Resurrection is happening all the time: under the earth, deep within someone’s soul, for a community.
Fasting is characterized by what we’re not doing. A fast can only exist in the context of being regularly fed. Without a normal rhythm of feeding, a fast would be a pointless distinction.
Speaking of power, greens and God, there is a fantastic word that feels especially alive this time of year: viriditas. Literally meaning “greening power” in Latin, this term was coined by the 12th-century mystic St. Hildegard of Bingen, to describe divine energy.
