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Tree Planting: a Powerful Action to Slow Climate Change

For more than a decade, I had admired the massive ancient oak trees in my neighbor’s yard. When one of them came down in a storm a few years ago, I was awed by what I saw.  When the tree stood upright, I saw strength and majesty.  As the tree lay on the ground before me, I saw an intricate complexity to life that I had never before fully comprehended. It was a sacred experience. 
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October 26, 2020
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Lightning Bugs and Vegetables in Abundance

Chasing lightning bugs, spitting watermelon seeds, and eating vegetables. Those things evoke “summer” through childhood eyes. My family almost never ate meat in the summertime. Why would we? There was an abundance of vegetables outside in the garden . . . . Read more

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August 2, 2020
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Combining worship with great outdoors

While giving a weather report at the beginning of a worship service is usually cliché, on Oct. 20 in Wilmot, Ont., it would have been redundant.

Wilmot Forest Church — a new initiative of Burning Bush Forest Church and Wilmot Mennonite Church — doesn’t meet indoors.

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January 13, 2020
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