Fruitful Living

 Fruitful Living

Sermon preached by Rev. Dr. Curt Karns
at Utqiagvik Presbyterian Church
1265 Agvik St, Utqiagvik, AK 99723
April 28, 2024



Fruitful Living 













Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Do Joel Salatin Events Practice "Local Theologizing?"

As advertised in earlier posts, the Alaska Design Forum brought Joel Salatin to Alaska this week.   The goal was to inspire events aimed at designing a more effective and integrated food system for Alaska Grown foods.   Last night Salatin joined a group of leaders in Alaska’s food system.   The panel presentation, followed by a spirited discussion from the crowd that gathered, approached becoming an exercise in local theologizing Cindee, my spouse, served as moderator for the evening, and did a great job.   She, and the whole team that put this together, brought an amazing week of learning and collaborating to Alaska.     I’m so proud of the good work she is doing with these other wonderful folks. Local theologizing is a process that draws together people from local communities to take practical actions for their communities based on Christian ethics.   It requires a collaborative effort for defining the issue, seeing what is possible, and...
Read more

Hard Work?

Image
  Today, Cindee and I are out putting down pilings for the greenhouse we are building.   A greenhouse has always been a part of our permaculture design for this property.   Alaska has such a short growing season that a greenhouse is a must for anyone, who wishes to enjoy crops like tomatoes, peppers or cucumbers.   Besides, we get so much sun on our southwest-facing slope, it would be a real shame to waste it. Since our home has always been an experimental home, we decided our greenhouse needed to be an experimental design, as well.   And since our home is now the Alaskan Ecoescape Permaculture Learning Center , we decided the greenhouse needed be built largely according to permaculture design principles.    The result has been a lot of hard work.   This is especially true, since we will build the walls of locally harvested clay, straw and sand.   We will be offering a class on clay-straw building this weekend (June 1-2) and every...
Read more