Dogs & Doxology:

Stories of Nature, Hope, & Beauty

Welcome to Our Thanksgiving Playbook
Thanksgiving Melissa Jantz Thanksgiving Melissa Jantz

Welcome to Our Thanksgiving Playbook

While the call to war is obviously figurative, it is intended to be no less arresting than hearing the tocsin bells start up in a medieval town. It’s a call to radically shift our outlook, to move from a day of just food, family, and football—though good pursuits in and of themselves—to a heightened sense of purpose, a gathering unique in time and space, never to be repeated, whose impact will ripple across the cosmos.

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Surprised by Scripture
Gatherings Melissa Jantz Gatherings Melissa Jantz

Surprised by Scripture

"In our studies, we explore everything from fun linguistic elements to the great mysteries of life. Each moment of study is an invitation to walk with people through the questions and revelations; to sit beside them as they wrestle and discover the timeless abundance hidden in the text." —Holly Ullman

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Stay and Be Rooted
Jamin Jantz Jamin Jantz

Stay and Be Rooted

I’ve run past naked people (not nearly as many as you might think), unhoused and drug addicts, through parades (accidentally), protests (again, accidentally)—up, over, and around the many hills of San Francisco. 

I’ve stood in the pre-dawn dark on Twin Peaks....

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Get Dirty, Be Healthy
Melissa Jantz Melissa Jantz

Get Dirty, Be Healthy

A while ago I listened to a podcast featuring a conversation between singer, song-writer, poet, and author Andrew Peterson and Hebrew scholar and founder of Bible Project Tim Mackie. They were talking about trees. Trees in real life. Trees in literature. Trees in the past. Trees in the future.

Somewhere around minute 31, Andrew made a remark about dirt.

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