Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @HaddenTurner

@HaddenTurner 1/24 Your final paragraph landed. With your @affinitytalks pieces on evangelical faith and environmental concerns in view, I wonder if a seeming tension—critiquing "environmentalism" yet insisting on responsible agrarian work—is actually the outline of a reconciliation to name.

Excerpt from: When put together, the ecological requirements necessary for flowing honey, coupled with the agricultural standards necessary for flowing milk, ought to make one thing as clear as day: the promise of “a land flowing with milk and honey” was, and is, a manifesto for good work; the good work of creating and stewarding a productive agrarian landscape that exists in mutual harmony with its surrounding wild lands. We would do well to adopt this God-given manifesto and this God-given standard for our own lands and nations — and watch the blessings flow. “A land flowing with milk and honey”: no greater Agrarian Standard has been uttered than this. None ever will.
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Excerpt from: When put together, the ecological requirements necessary for flowing honey, coupled with the agricultural standards necessary for flowing milk, ought to make one thing as clear as day: the promise of “a land flowing with milk and honey” was, and is, a manifesto for good work; the good work of creating and stewarding a productive agrarian landscape that exists in mutual harmony with its surrounding wild lands. We would do well to adopt this God-given manifesto and this God-given standard for our own lands and nations — and watch the blessings flow. “A land flowing with milk and honey”: no greater Agrarian Standard has been uttered than this. None ever will.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @PageauJonathan I once spent much time with a compass and ruler and John Michell's 'New Jerusalem' geometrical, visual claim that the eschaton harmonizes the 6 and 7 orders. Paradise gardening is its earthbound analog: creation care reconciling the distinctions between home, habitat, and God.Quoted by@PageauJonathan I once spent much time with a compass and ruler and John Michell's 'New Jerusalem' geometrical, visual claim that the eschaton harmonizes the 6 and 7 orders. Paradise gardening is its earthbound analog: creation care reconciling the distinctions between home, habitat, and God.