Or even the real estate of your own body. You may have never thought of stewarding your body as part of the call to steward the earth, but it’s not that much of a stretch. We are, after all, made from the earth, a mixture of minerals and elements that have only been made alive by the quickening Spirit of God. As well, the success of our bodies (our ability to be fruitful and multiply) is intrinsically connected with the success of the earth. “It is hardly surprising then,” writes naturalist Wendell Berry, “that there should be some profound resemblances between our treatment of our bodies and
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