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My friends,

This Christmas it will be 5 years since Abba (and his servant Hugh Hewitt) first put the notion in my head to start blogging about evangelicals and the environment. It's been a great experience, and has opened up many doors to meet people that have enormously enriched my life.

One of those people, blogger and good friend Joe Carter, encouraged me to establish a relationship with Clapham Group. Over the past year this has grown into a commitment to write a book on ecology from a conservative Christian perspective.

I'm finding that the demands of three teens, my work at the College, and other areas of ministry in my home church have left me just enough time for the book but not much else. I don't plan on dismantling evaneco.com anytime soon. Just a pause to work on this project. Thanks for your understanding, and your prayers.

In the meantime, I'd encourage you to spend time at SustainLane.com's creation care section. Lots of great writing on the subject of faith and ecology there. It's a green, grace-filled enterprise that we need much more of in the blogosphere.

Grace and peace,

db

Darrick may have a few thoughts, but I'm gonna take the weekend off. Moving to a new house (closed escrow today), and enjoying the long dog days of summer here in Newport.

Hope you and yours are blessed! See ya after the weekend.

Grace and peace,

Don

My sister Heather's bagged a Murrow for the fourth year running. This year I'm going to see her in NYC no matter what!

Her award-winning piece for CBS is here (mp3).

Don't imagine us leaders to be something we aren't. We are servants of Christ, not his masters. We are guides into God's most sublime secrets, not security guards posted to protect them. The requirements for a good guide are reliability and accurate knowledge.  [1 Cor 4, The Message]

Heard an interesting sermon this morning that spoke to my heart. It was about a several-hundred-year-old church in England that had "We Preach Christ Crucified" engraved on its brick and stone archway. Here's my best recollection:

Under that banner the preacher brought sermon after sermon on the power of God, redemption and revival: The God-Man Christ born, died, buried, resurrected, ascended in glory, and coming again to judge the quick and the dead.