The Reconciliation of Humanity and Earth

On July 19th, I (Joseph) gave a sermon at my church (The Mercy House). I am posting it here because it has a lot to do with farming, environmental care, and local culture. These are issues that readers of this blog may like to look deeper into and here with the link below i offer my teaching and perspective on such things. In it i draw from the bible, wendell berry, and the ethos of Anderson, IN in support of why reconciliation with the earth is so biblically important and also i develop a set of “land ethics” that deals with the mentality of a human towards the earth and creation and how it should be. The main point is that the earth belongs to God, not us.

http://media.themercyhouse.com/sermons/sermon_2009-07-19_Joe_Monroe.mp3

the first few minutes are bad quality but if you get through that, the majority of the sermon is in good quality.