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“I have come home at last! This is my real country!” cries the unicorn near the end of C.S. Lewis’s The Last Battle, stamping his right fore-hoof on the ground. “I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this.”1

Our desire for heaven is like the unicorn’s. Once we get there, we’ll realize it is the land we had been looking for all of our lives. The rea-son we’ll have this shock of recogni-tion is that it will be a place we’ve been before.

The end of the story is very much like the beginning. The paradise of Genesis was filled with trees—“trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food.” In the middle of the garden stood the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; the garden was watered by a river flowing from Eden, separating

into four streams. Likewise, down the middle of the great street of the New Jerusalem a river will flow—the river of the water of life. The tree of life will be there too but, in the heav-enly paradise, this tree will be even more astounding than it was back in Genesis: the tree will be on both sides of the river, and it will yield its fruit every month. And its leaves, John the Seer adds, are “for the healing of the nations” (Rev 22:2).

Our origin is paradise, and our destination, too, is paradise. “To put the matter briefly,” says the great sixth-century theologian, Pseudo-Dionysius, “all being derives from, exists in, and is returned toward the Beautiful and the Good. Whatever there is, whatever comes to be, is there and has being on account of the Beautiful and the Good. All things look to it. All things are moved by it. All things are preserved by it.”2 “And so it is,” he concludes, “that all things must desire, must yearn for, must love, the Beautiful and the Good.”3

Because we come from paradise, we long for it. Because we come from paradise, we’ll one day echo the words of the unicorn: “This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.”

Once you recognize that we’re garden creatures at heart, all kinds of passages from scripture open up. Christ, God’s Wisdom is the tree of life in the paradise of God. “Nothing you desire can compare” to this heavenly Wisdom, says the Proverb (3:13). This paradisal Wisdom “is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessed” (3:19). People who are truly

“blessed” or “happy,” Psalm 1 insists, become like Christ in his heavenly paradise; they are “like a tree plant-ed by streams of water.” Such people yearn, as Dionysius suggested, to return to the beauty and goodness of the heavenly paradise. Filled with desire for Christ, their heavenly groom, they exclaim, “Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my lover among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste” (Sg 2:3).

The biblical account locates us, as fallen creatures, “east of Eden,” in the dwelling place of Cain. But it is east of Eden that we’ve come to rec-ognize the tree of life as being Christ himself. Christ is the tree planted by streams of water—Psalm 1. Christ is the apple tree among the trees of the forest—Song of Songs 2. And Christ is the tree of life to those who embrace wisdom—Proverbs 3.

Our desires, misdirected though they often are as we journey east of Eden, come to fruition in the gar-den. They come to fruition in the tree of life. They come to fruition in Christ himself. Once we’re with Christ in heaven, we’ll shout out: “I have come home at last! This is my real country!”

Hans Boersma, J.I. Packer Professor of Theology

1. C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia (New York, N.Y: HarperCollins, 2001), 760.

2. Pseudo-Dionysius, “The Divine Names, in Pseudo-Dionysius : The Complete Works” trans. Colm Luibheid, ed. Paul Rorem, The Classics of Western Spirituality (New York, N.Y.: Paulist, 1987), IV.10 (p. 79).

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While the parable of the sower is presented in all three of the syn-

optic gospels (Mt 13:1-23, Mk 4:1-20 and Lk 8:1-15), this is the sole refer-ence to the parable of the soil or, more accurately, the power of the seed. The farmer’s responsibilities are clearly out-lined: he scatters seed and collects the harvest but, in between, whether by day or by night, whether he sleeps or rises, he cannot make the seed grow. More importantly, he does not even know how the growth occurs. All by itself the seed grows, and the result is something that is large in comparison to the seed’s original size—a stalk, a head, a full kernel.

The nature of the kingdom of God revealed here is that of a harvest that is dependent not on the activity of the farmer, but on the power inherent in the seed.

One of the arresting images in this parable is the growth of the seed while the farmer sleeps. Sleep, a symbol of inactivity and passivity, does not deter the seed from developing. This is a good reminder of one of the crucial distinc-tions between the Creator and his crea-tures: “He will not let your foot slip—he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep” (Ps 121:3).

While the parable does not negate the role of the farmer, it does put the farmer in a larger context. A farmer can care for her fields, a gardener for his garden, but he or she is dependent on a process that cannot be completely con-trolled by human means. Thus farms and gardens are manifestations of God’s power to make things grow, concrete physical reminders that God never slumbers.

In the 1960s the founders of Regent College worked, prayed, and planted a new theological school in Vancouver, then a relatively unknown metropoli-tan area. Today we do our work in one of the most beautiful and well-known cities in the world, an urban centre framed by ocean, mountains, and rivers, now made famous by Expo 86 and the 2010 Winter Olympics. Housed on the University Endowment Lands, we stand within the shadow of the University of British Columbia, one of the top univer-sities in Canada.

Being planted in this city, and on this campus, raises many questions about geographical stewardship. What is our responsibility in the context of the city and the university? What programs should be initiated? What interventions should be undertaken? What influence are we having? Does our international reach blind us to local realities?

Although these questions are important, they are secondary. In order for any of them to be answered, we need a proper framework within which to understand them. The seed of Regent College was planted in this place and at this time by its founders, but also by the inspiration and grace of God—so we can expect Regent College, as a king-dom enterprise, to grow and develop like the seed in Jesus’ parable.

Remembering that God is always active and involved allows us to rest not only from physical labour, but from the mental exhaustion of carrying the con-tinued existence and success of Regent College on our own shoulders. We rest in the knowledge that God is ever present, watching, and providing the power that makes the seed grow. This ensures that our spiritual vigilance does not become self-centered hyperactiv-ity in which we begin to view our own actions, programs, and initiatives as the impetus for God to work.

Regent College is a garden planted in the midst of Vancouver. It is our task to continue to scatter seed and watch the kingdom of God grow in various ways. It is our responsibility to be ready to harvest when the time comes. Our God-sightings, in this process, will not so much reflect our conscientiousness, alertness, or activity, as they will dem-onstrate the power of the seed, birthed from the heart of the triune God.

Rod WilsonPresident, Regent College

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Editor’s NotE: In this issue of Regent World, we focus on the scriptural language of the garden and the city. From the Garden of Eden to the New Jerusalem, scripture presents us with numerous stirring images that engage both rural and urban culture, and cause us to question the place and task of humanity in the world.

“This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”

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The Marketplace Institute has four major areas of operational activity:

• Research. This is a natural outflow of the Institute’s aca-demic rooting at Regent College, and involves undertak-ing research and communicating with various publics. Current research focuses include: spirituality in the workplace; capitalism and sustainability; leadership and entrepreneurialism; and the nature of modern pluralism. The Institute has just completed a major research proj-ect focused on the interrelation of pedagogy and learning technology in Christian adult education for a US-based organization, Disciple Nations Alliance.

• Missional Communities. The Institute defines a mission-al community as a community-based integrated learning experience, in which a small group of people meets sev-eral times per year, over a sustained period, for the pur-pose of integrative theological action. Such communities are highly intentional, and oriented around the shared desire to see transformation of a geographic location or sphere of public life.

• Leadership Development. To facilitate the type of leadership required for missional communities to be effective, the Institute has developed both executive leadership training, which focuses on providing oppor-tunities for existing leaders to participate in sustained

study and reflection on the integration of faith and daily life, and an internship program, which focuses on train-ing and forming a group of current Regent students to be transformational leaders. This April, the first four Marketplace Institute interns graduated from this pro-gram, and four new interns have been selected to partici-pate in this program in the coming year.

• Social Enterprise Incubator. While Social Enterprise is a worldwide movement, the Institute approaches this concept with an explicitly theological perspective, bringing theology to bear on every aspect of business design by offering cours-es, training materials, consultancy, and other resources to help people in their start-up opportunities.

As a natural extension of these four areas of operational activity, the Institute recently held a conference, entitled God and the Global Economy, that brought together some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in both theology and international political economy to engage with the recent papal encyclical Caritas in Vertitate. Additional resources and a continuation of this dialogue can be found at www.capitalismproject.org.

Please contact the Marketplace Institute if you are interested in further details regarding ways to support and/or partner with the Institute, or if you have any further questions about their activities.

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Over this past academic year, John G. StackhouSe Jr. has given apologetical lectures at the University of Ottawa, Queen’s University, and Stanford University, as well as at the University of British Columbia. He invites alumni to contact him about coming to their favourite campus. You can contact him through his website, www.johnstackhouse.com, on which possible topics are also listed.

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Regent College is delighted to welcome roSe-Marie Goodwin to its staff as Director of Will and Estate Gifts. Goodwin comes to Regent College with significant experience and expertise in the area of testamentary gifts. If you have questions about leaving a gift to Regent College in your will, please feel free to contact Goodwin by phone or by email: rmgoodwin@regent-college.edu604.221.3382

On April 26, regent COllege held its 40th COnvOCAtiOn ceremony. The College celebrated this milestone with a weekend of events, including: a “Taste of Regent” morn-ing, at which graduates and their families, and honoured guests enjoyed mini-lectures, a mini-chapel service, library tours, live music, and refreshments; the installation of Professor Rikk Watts, which included a lecture by Watts on “Mark’s Astonishing Picture of Jesus: In the Power and Authority of God”; and Convocation itself, at which numerous individuals involved in the founding of Regent College were honoured. We are currently working on a very special 40th anniversary edition of The Regent World, for publication this fall.

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Summer CourSe SnippetSMArk BuChAnAn – A Man for All Seasons: How Jesus Meets Us in High Summer, Deep Winter and Everywhere In BetweenThis course explores Christ’s call to bear fruit and, by impli-cation, seasonality as a model for spiritual formation. This seasonality, rarely applied to our walk with God, provides a missing key to the abundant life Jesus promised. Students will gain insight into the rhythms of their own hearts, and learn how to abide with Christ, the man for all seasons.

J. M. Walker – Writing to Revive Broken Truth: Metaphor, Paradox and ReversalThis class is designed to be helpful not only to poets, but to non-poets who want to explore ways of making their lives—or their sermons—more open to and expressive of mystery. Through metaphor, paradox, and reversal, poetry defies our cultural categories, mocks our technical language, quiets our habitual noise, slows our speed, and challenges the institution-alized dogma into which Christianity tends to collapse.

George Marsden and Bill Svelmoe – Revive Us Again: Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism at Home and AbroadThis course will examine Protestant evangelicalism and fundamentalism as they have been manifested in North America and then exported abroad. The course will include the fundamentalist controversies of the early twentieth century, the late-century emergence of political fundamentalistic evangelicalism, the spread and influence of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity, and current issues regarding how much evangelicalism reflects or challenges contemporary commercial culture and gospels of success.

John Stackhouse – Make Up Your MindAll Christians think, but not all Christians think always as Christians. When Christian A meets issue X and determines to think about it in a Christian way, what is he or she actually to do? What resources should he or she consult, and how should he or she coordinate them with each other? What spiritual factors are involved? And what, finally, is the point of Christian thinking? This course attempts to answer these questions, particularly in the context of cultural pluralism and postmodernity.

Bruce Waltke – The Book of ProverbsThis course aims to introduce the book of Proverbs and to apply the book’s wisdom to specific areas of life. The course will consider the book’s structure and its rhetoric; its doctrines of health, wealth, and prosperity; and its connection to the wisdom of Jesus Christ. The book’s wisdom will be specifically applied, among other subjects, to communication/speech, wealth/money, marriage, and parenting.

evening publiC leCtureSJuneMon., June 28 DAVID I. SMITH

Learning from the Stranger: Christians and Other CulturesWed., June 30 JAMES K.A. SMITH Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy

JulyMon., July 5 MARK BUCHANAN Your Church is Too Safe: Becoming Those Who Turn the World Upside Down

Wed., July 7 MARILYN McENTYRE & JEANNE MURRAY WALKER An Evening of Poetry

Mon., July 12 JEREMY BEGBIE Living in Hope: Imagining and Embodying God’s New World through the Arts

Wed., July 14 SIMON GATHERCOLE Who Were the Gnostics?

Mon., July 19 SUSAN PHILLIPS Friendship Matters: Attending to a Neglected Spiritual Discipline

Wed., July 21 JOHN HARE Can We Be Good without God?

Fri., July 23 JOHN G. STACKHOUSE, JR. Beyond Bracketing: Why Accounting for the Supernatural Cannot Be Indefinitely Postponed Connected to the Regent College History Workshop 2010

Mon., July 26 DAVID SKEEL The Sermon on the Mount for Lawyers and Other Sinners

Wed., July 28 MAKO FUJIMURA Soliloquies: Rouault & FujimuraAll lectures are free and are held from 8:00–9:30pm in the Regent Chapel. These lectures tend to draw large crowds, so plan to arrive early for a good seat. Private taping is not permit-ted. Audio recordings may be ordered following each lecture.

Fri.–Sat., REGENT HISTORY WORKSHOP 2010July 23-24 DON LEWIS, GEORGE MARSDEN, JOHN STACKHOUSE AND BILL SVELMOE

Cost $25 at the door Information bookstore@ regent-college.edu 1.800.334.3279 or 604.228.1820

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Chapel is central to our life together at Regent —but you don’t have to be a Regent student, staff, or faculty member to attend. Held twice a week in spring session (May 10–June 11) and daily during summer session (June 28–August 14), chapel is a great opportunity to join the Regent community for sing-ing, liturgy, and homilies by summer term lecturers.

regent College hiStory WorkShopOnly $25 at the door, and featuring George Marsden, John G. Stackhouse, Donald M. Lewis, and Bill Svelmoe, this may be the deal of the summer. Held from July 23–24, the workshop will feature lectures such as “The Protestant Ethos and the Spirit of Secular America: The Rise of Worldview Nationalism in the Universities as a Case Study”; “The Education of an Evangelical Missionary: Cameron Townsend and the Wycliffe Bible Translators in Latin America”; and “‘Religion from Below’—From About as Below as You can Get: The Manuscript Diary of a Lay Evangelist in a Victorian London Slum.” All events will be held at Regent College, and tickets will be available at the door.

lunChtime ConCertSFrom jazz to Celtic harp, classical cello to flamenco nuevo, there’s something for everyone. Concerts are held 12:00 to 1:00pm on Thursdays, and the occasional Tuesday, in the park north of the College. In the event of rain, concerts are held in the Regent atrium.

truth telling by StoryEnjoy a public performance by students of Bruce Kuhn’s course, Truth Telling by Story. Students will perform scripture from memory. Every time students from this class have per-formed at Regent, we have been astonished by how profound-ly moving this performance is. Don’t miss it. Friday, July 30, 8:00pm at Regent College.

immeaSurably more: ArtiStS ANd the ChurCh, exploriNg New ModelS of pAtroNAge Join former Regent College Chapel Coordinator and key member of the By/For arts movement Brian Moss as he hosts an evening of dialogue devoted to the arts, featuring Mako Fujimura (International Arts Movement, New York), Angie and Todd Fadel (The Bridge Christian Church, Portland), Dal Schindell (Regent College), and others. Friday, July 16, 7:00pm at Fairview Presbyterian Church.

integrative proJeCtS in the artS and theologyA number of students are completing their time at Regent College by offering a presentation to the community. These are great opportunities to discover some of the artistic work happening at Regent—and they’re all free! The following projects will be open to the public this summer:

Claudia Carrara Women and the Kingdom of God: Visual Encounters in Luke’s Gospel

An art exhibit and creative explora-tion of the text and the history of images. Tuesday, July 13, 7:30pm

Aften Wilson Six Days

A short film viewing and an exhibi-tion. Thursday, July 22, 7:30pm

Constance Chan Nails in the Soles of my Shoes: A Serving of Flamenco

A presentation of flamenco dance and prose reflections. Tuesday, July 27, 7:30pm

lookout gallery exhibitionStefan Brunhoff Chasing PresenceDrawing inspiration from the unique quali-ties of the British Columbia landscape, and from the watercolour medium, Brunhoff’s paintings capture both movement and light. Brunhoff says of his painting: “Watercolour paint, the use of brush strokes and washes on various kinds of paper, have a life and seeming

intention of their own. One seeks to see, touch, and elicit the profundity, the beauty, and the strangeness of what is before one’s eyes and to distil and amplify this into the painting. It is a pursuit of ‘otherness,’ a sense of the world seen anew in the moment and revealed through the engagement and play with brushes, paint, and paper.” The artist will be present at the opening reception on June 30 from 4:30–7:30pm, and the show will run from June 30–July 30.

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Constance ChanConstance Chan’s home city, Singapore, is sometimes called a “garden city” because of the many trees planted throughout the dense metropolis—but it does not actually contain many parks or gardens. She appreciates green spaces in cities, when she does encounter them, calling them “a breathing space in the city…a place where I can be reminded of God’s created natural beauty.” For the most part, however, Chan (who calls herself a city-girl) prefers skyscrapers to spruce trees. Before coming to Regent in 2007, Chan lived in Tokyo for three years, one year as a student, and two serving as a missionary. Currently, she is in the city of Vancouver, doing something that still surprises her—completing her Master of Christian Studies in Christianity and the Arts at Regent College with an Integrative Project in flamenco dance performance. Although she had taken dance lessons previously, before coming to Regent Chan did not have a

framework for seeing dance as a way to serve God. She associates flamenco with urban settings, with Spanish cafés (tablaos), and the buzz of a lot of people in a concentrated space. More than this, she suggests that flamenco dance, a dance of strength and graceful defiance originally performed by Gypsies, expresses solidarity with the marginalized and displaced. Chan states “I think that it reflects [God’s] heart, also, for those who are marginalized and displaced.”

Tim Proudlove“If I were back in Scotland right now, I’d be in the middle of lambing season,” says Tim Proudlove, Master of Divinity student and erstwhile veterinary surgeon. Prior to coming to Regent, Proudlove—the son of two medical doctors and the grandson of a dairy farmer—worked to set up a new veterinary practice in the Scottish Borders, specializing in large animals. When asked what he misses about that work, he jokes that he doesn’t miss all the sleepless nights. But, he says, it was rewarding work, and he enjoyed the camaraderie with the farmers—especially when he was able to solve a worrisome medical situation with the animals. Proudlove sees his skills as a veterinarian as being very transferable to his future work as a pastor because, he says, “Being a vet is mainly about people. It’s about their feelings about their animals, understanding where people are at, and getting alongside them….” Proudlove recalls one of his first classes after coming to Regent in 2008—Iain Provan’s “Genesis” lecture in Old

Testament Foundations. “The first revelation God gives us about himself is him being a good, generous Creator. I’m still working out the implications of that, but, as someone who can tend to have a hard view of God, I have started seeing his goodness more.”

Rudi KrauseA father, grandfather, graduate student, and urban farmer, Rudi Krause has been involved with gardening since he was a child. “Working with soil and plants is just part of who I am,” he says. Krause, who grew up in Vancouver and owned an orchard in the Okanagan Valley of BC from 1992-2005, got involved with urban agriculture in Vancouver two years ago, when he assisted Regent alumnus Robert Lockridge with his final project, a dinner using locally grown food. Out of this grew the Urban Farm Project; Krause, Lockridge, and several others grind wheat, prune pear trees, grow myriad fruits and vegetables, and even pick grapes, which they stomp, press, and ferment into wine. By selling “shares” of the produce to family and friends at church, at Regent, and in the community, Lockridge and another partner in the Urban Farm Project have been able to provide for some of their own needs, as well as provide food to others who need it. Krause, who is working toward his Master of Christian Studies in Interdisciplinary Studies,

merging theology, anthropology, and the arts, feels it is important to be hands-on with theology. He says, “Theology is never divorced from the practical implications. We can’t think about God in the abstract.” While there are definitely drawbacks to farming in the city—limited space and urban pollution, for instance—Krause is undeterred. “The story of God’s relationship with humanity is in that tension between garden and city,” he says. “God is involved in that whole process.”

The banners in Regent College’s chapel tell a visual story of the world, from its garden origins to the telos of the coming city of God, where all is made new. Featured here are three students who reflect both urban and rural aspects of this great story: a self-professed city-girl from Asia; a Scottish veterinarian; and a Canadian urban farmer.

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Gardener GodBy Stacey Gleddiesmith

In my prairie farm home, spring always began with foil trays of potting soil lined up on our window sills. When green shoots

of tomatoes, marigolds, and geraniums began to poke above the surface, I knew that spring thaw couldn’t be too far away.

After last frost, my mother would sit down at the kitchen table and draw a map of the garden. With packets of seed scat-tered across the table, rows of peas, beans, and carrots, plots of zucchini and corn would sprout from her pencil across the page. We would enact her map later that week: unrolling lengths of string and tracing straight rows along them, filling trenches with water, dropping seeds in and covering them over; taking bright green seedlings out of their foil trays and sinking them deep in the soil of flower beds and garden plots.

Perhaps it is because of this family history that I am fasci-nated by the Genesis 2 description of God as gardener: “Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleas-ing to the eye and good for food” (vv. 8-9). The Lord God planted—not spoke into being, but planted—got down on his hands and knees and dropped seeds into trenches in the earth, waited for them to grow.

Not only does God plant a garden, but he plants humanity within that garden (v. 8)—and gives humanity its first task: “to work [the garden] and take care of it” (v. 15). As image-bearers of our gardener God, we are charged with the responsibility of tending the earth.

This is a responsibility I took for granted when I worked on my father’s farm, and in my mother’s garden. Now that I live in the city, with only a small balcony to connect me to the out-doors, I feel disconnected from the origins of food. I experience few consequences of my actions in nature. When my garbage is swept neatly away every week, what does it matter how much of it I produce? When I buy my food in plastic trays and bags at the grocery store, what does it matter if it doesn’t rain? I have become seduced by convenience: throwing out what could be saved; expecting fruits and vegetables to be readily available, regardless of season; accumulating unneeded possessions that gather dust on my shelves before being consigned to some far-removed rubbish heap.

When the prophets pick up on the image of God as gardener, they give it a differ-ent twist. Israel is described as a well-watered garden under God’s hand (Nm 24:6–7, Is 58:11, Jer 31:12), or, when in rebellion against God, as a desert or wilderness, untended and unproductive (Is 5:1–7, Is 51:3). Living in cities, removed from the earth that sustains us, we struggle not only to fulfill our task as image-bearers of a gardener God, but also to understand the work of a gardener God in our lives, to understand ourselves as garden: as pruned, weeded, watered, as weathering the seasons.

For four years now, I have felt locked under a blanket of snow, barely surviving through a very long winter. Spring may still be months, or even years, away. Every day, I struggle with despair. This image of God as gardener is something I cling to: God draw-ing out garden rows, in the midst of winter; filling foil trays with potting soil; setting them on the window sill and watching, with me, for the day that green shoots will begin to appear.

In the meantime, in my city apartment, I try to remind myself in as many ways as possible of this gardener God, to remind myself of my image-bearing role as gardener. I grow tomatoes, zucchini, chives, and rosemary on my balcony, and alfalfa and bean sprouts on my kitchen counter. I sort my gar-bage and haul recycling and compost inconveniently to recy-cling sites in the city. And, every year, before the last frost has left the ground—while it is still winter—I plant seeds in foil trays and set them out on my window sills.

Stacey Gleddiesmith graduated from Regent College in 2007 with a Master of Divinity degree concentrating in Christianity

and the Arts. She currently works as the Staff Writer at Regent College, and continues to pursue research in the area

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The Association of Theological Schools has awarded hanS BoerSMa and Matthew Levering (University of Dayton) a Lilly Collaborative Research Grant of $16,000. The grant will support their work as directors of the newly established Centre for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue (CCED www.ccedprograms.org). The CCED is a research centre that aims to sponsor conferences and research projects that nourish the ability of Catholic and evangelical communities to understand, appreciate, challenge, and benefit from one another. The Lilly grant will allow the CCED to run a major conference at Regent College, in September 2011, that will examine spiritual and theological inter-pretations of scripture on the theme “Heaven on Earth?”

Regent Alum w. david o. taylor has recently completed a book entitled For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts, a work that inspires readers and empow-ers pastors and leaders with a vision of the church and the arts that is compelling, far-seeing, and profoundly transformative. This insightful book takes the reader beyond “how we’ve always done it,” beyond fads, beyond mere imitation of the culture, and beyond utilitarianism to develop a robust, dynamic, and substantive vision for the place of the arts, and artists, in our churches. Contributors include: Eugene Peterson, Lauren Winner, Luci Shaw, Jeremy Begbie, and John Witvliet.

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Sacred History & Sa-cred Geography: Spiri-tual Journeys in Time and Space

David MartinJohn Wilson, editor of Books & Culture, says of David Martin “There’s no scholar at work today, across the board, whom I admire more.” This

book explores the tensions between the inner journey of the heart-in-pilgrimage, and the physical journey to sacred locations.

Pastoral CareDarrell JohnsonJohnson exam-ines—biblically, theologically, and practically—the care ministry of the church. He also explores what it means to serve through the vari-

ous transitions of life into which pastors are regularly invited: birth of children, marriage, addiction-freedom, depression, grieving the loss of loved ones, etc.

The Devotional Use of the Psalms in the History of the Christian ChurchThroughout much of its history, the church has viewed the Psalter as the Bible in minia-ture for lay devotees. In this tradition, Houston alerts Chris-tians to the critical

importance of the Psalms for contemporary defense of Christian orthodoxy, as well as the recovery of psalmic consciousness for personal and corporate devotion.

Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Chris-tianity

Miriam AdeneyIn this introduction to global missions, Miriam Adeney pulls back the veil on real Christians around the world, expanding the

vision of the possibility and promise of a liv-ing faith that is dynamically shaping lives, communities, and nations around the world.

Harvesting Fog

Luci ShawIn her tenth volume of poetry, Luci Shaw contemplates nature and humanity. She compares the task of a poet to the prac-tice, in coastal areas of South America, of hanging rags and

nets outside until they are saturated with moisture from coastal fog, which is wrung out all year long, as a means of survival.

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Regent Radio allows you to listen to individual lectures and complete series by Regent College Faculty Mem-bers, Emeritus Professors and Visiting Lecturers over the Internet. This is a great way to participate in the “Regent World,” regardless of where in the world you live. Broadcast schedules are posted daily.

address: Regent College, 5800 University Blvd. Vancouver BC, V6T 2E4 ph: 604.224.3245

Prayer: Biblical FoundationsTaking the Psalms and the Lord’s Prayer as his principle texts, Peterson familiar-izes listeners with foundational bibli-cal prayers upon which to build

their prayer lives. The goal is personal prayer, both individual and corporate, that develops out of biblical prayer.

James M. Houston Darrell Johnson Eugene Peterson

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