Todd Wynward writes, farms, teaches and leads wilderness trips in northern NM. He is an animating force behind TiLT, an intentional discipleship co-housing community in the Rio Grande Watershed. His new book, Rewilding the Way, is to be published by Herald Press in 2015.

This is the first post in an 8-part series covering unique experiments in Watershed Discipleship: every Friday until Advent on RadicalDiscipleship.Net.
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We will not save a place we do not love.
We cannot love a place we do not know.
Ched Myers, citing Senegalese environmentalist Baba Dioum

This is the vital adult education of our time: to become re-placed in our watersheds. To love a place, we must first know it. This means paying attention to it: paying attention to its seasons, its species, its attributes and its attitudes.

I began to seek the wisdom of my watershed about five years ago. What could it teach me about how to live as a place-based person? As I learn to re-inhabit the place I live, I see my region as my rabbi in three specific ways.

Continue reading “Region As Rabbi by Todd Wynward” →

Last weekend, we got to spend time at the Rooted & Grounded Conference hosted by Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, IN (photo right: the St. Joseph River Watershed). A lot of focus was placed on the challenge of shifting the epicenter of our discipleship towards each of our unique, respective watersheds during this “watershed moment” of impending climate catastrophe, income inequality, violence & racial tension. King’s giant triplets of evil (racism, materialism & militarism) haven’t gone away. What now? Continue reading “Pledging Allegiance To Watershed Discipleship” →

We urge you to take up and read two really important pieces of social analysis & theological animation before this huge weekend of climate justice action and international peace advocacy. Continue reading “Two Weekend Reading Recommendations” →