I had just finished giving a talk for Blackhawk Church’s Metro3040 adult fellowship group, and had included a short video from Discovery Channel’s Planet Earth in which one expert says, “I think we’re facing the loss of half the world’s frogs.’
On the way out, one of the participants asked me: “So, exactly what is killing the frogs?”
It happens that I had just run across an article on this very topic two or three days ago. Richard Black, BBC Environment Correspondent, was commenting on a world-wide precipitous decline in amphibians of all kinds (think frogs, salamanders, etc) in a post he called ‘The Attack of the Killer Everything“: Read more »
Three months of planning, writing, praying and creativity and now, a bit of rest before we get into 2010.
The first day of the new year of 2010, was spent driving back to Madison, WI from St. Louis, MO where we had spent the previous week with about 13,000 students and 3,000 other attendees both experiencing — and in some ways helping to shape — the future of missions in the US. Read more »
No one comes to Urbana for fun. This is not a “winter break” vacation. Not by a long shot.
There are a couple of common threads that we have heard from each of the over 100 students we have talked to at our Urbana09 booth and the countless others that we have sat next to in the morning worship service, met in the lunch line or ridden with in the hotel elevator.
From Urbana09 in St. Louis, Missouri, the question is raised … What are the challenges that students face (and we face) with this thing we call Environmental Missions or creation care?
We had the first of the “Environmental Track” seminars today and the students, through their questions and extremely outgoing personalities told us a lot about what they think, what they fear and what they expect.
After being preoccupied with Urbana for several weeks, and attacked by a hacker during the same period, Our Father’s World blog is back. Thank you for your patience.
We’ll first update with the dispatches from Urbana09 that were sent out to the Care of Creation e-newsletter list, and within a day or two bring you some of my own thoughts on Urbana09 and how the effort to highlight the environmental crisis turned out.
I had just finished giving a talk for Blackhawk Church’s Metro3040 adult fellowship group, and had included a short video from Discovery Channel’s Planet Earth in which one expert says, “I think we’re facing the loss of half the world’s frogs.’
