by Dorothy Greco | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Earth Care/Stewardship, Friday Soul Food
As I plop the forty-pound bag of organic fertilizer into the back of our ancient mini-van, I ask myself, “Why, exactly, am I spending twice as much for this as I would for the synthetic version?” The forsythia will bloom this week and means it’s time to feed the...
by Dorothy Greco | Apr 23, 2014 | Blog, Earth Care/Stewardship
As reported in the most recent issue of National Geographic, a team of scientists asked the question, “How can the world double the availability of food while simultaneously cutting the environmental harm caused by agriculture?” This team proposed five steps....
by Dorothy Greco | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
There was a day ten years ago when I felt ashamed to be human. The Massachusetts’ government was deciding whether to expand marriage rights to gays and lesbians. Hundreds of men and women, utterly and unapologetically opposing each other, faced off in front of...
by Dorothy Greco | Mar 18, 2014 | At the Intersection of Faith & Culture, Blog, Spirituality
“We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it. The process is not yet finished, but it is going on. This is not the end, but it is the road.” A Defense and Explanation of All Articles, Martin Luther Spring officially arrives this week. But here in...
by Dorothy Greco | Mar 14, 2014 | Blog, Book review, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
“Move beyond your self-image, your past, and your circumstances to discover who God created you to be.” How would our lives be different if we walked in the reality that men and women were designed and created by God to live as equals? That paradigm has...
by Dorothy Greco | Mar 1, 2014 | Blog, Book review, Spirituality
Author Margot Starbuck asks the salient question, “What if God receives me exactly as I am?” Sit with that a moment. Now ask yourself, “How has my culture, my friends, my family, or my significant others communicated to me that I need to be different than who I am?”...