The Au Sable Institute is a Christian environmental education center in Mancelona, Michigan. This post is the fifth of five excerpts from the Au Sable Institute’s 2021 workbook Liturgies of Restoration¸ a five-week study on how our habits can shape us into people who serve, protect, and restore God’s earth. Additional practices and resources mentioned here may […]
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Liturgies of Restoration (#4): Ordinary Transformation
The Au Sable Institute is a Christian environmental education center in Mancelona, Michigan. This post is the fourth of five excerpts from Au Sable Institute’s 2021 workbook Liturgies of Restoration¸ a five-week study on how our habits can shape us into people who serve, protect, and restore God’s earth. Additional practices and resources mentioned here may be […]
Liturgies of Restoration (#3): The Human-Earth Relationship
The Au Sable Institute is a Christian environmental education center in Mancelona, Michigan. This post is the third of five excerpts from Au Sable Institute’s 2021 workbook Liturgies of Restoration¸ a five-week study on how our habits can shape us into people who serve, protect, and restore God’s earth. Additional practices and resources mentioned here may be […]
Liturgies of Restoration (#2): Made For Relationship
The Au Sable Institute is a Christian environmental education center in Mancelona, Michigan. This post is the second of five excerpts from Au Sable Institute’s 2021 workbook Liturgies of Restoration¸ a five-week study on how our habits can shape us into people who serve, protect, and restore God’s earth. Additional practices and resources mentioned here may be […]
Book Response: Desiring the Kingdom, by James K. A. Smith
Smith’s “core claim . . . is that liturgies—whether ‘sacred’ or ‘secular’—shape and constitute our identities by forming our most fundamental desires and our most basic attunement to the world. . . . [i.e.,] liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love” (25)