Wilderness lovers, sustainability advocates, farmers, writers, educators and seminarians \u2013 Todd Wynward\u2019s message, shared during a series of events from Oct. 1-7 at Eastern Mennonite University, will appeal to anyone striving to live intentionally, lightly and joyfully on this earth.<\/p>\n
Wynward, who lives in Taos, New Mexico, is author of Rewilding the Way: <\/em><\/a>Break Free to Follow an Untamed God<\/a> <\/em>(Herald Press, 2015), <\/em>in which he defines a new kind of follower of Jesus: \u201c<\/em>a little more earth-honoring, empire-resisting, despair-erasing, and culture-changing\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Watershed discipleship, he writes in a bite-size autobiographical WeAreMenno blog post<\/a> is \u201ca deeply place-based way of life encouraging us to adapt our needs to a finite planet, rather than forcing the planet to adapt to our infinite needs.\u201d<\/p>\n Wynward has been engaged in education reform and social change movements for 20 years. He and his wife Peg are now creating TiLT<\/a>, an incubator for intentional living in Taos, New Mexico.<\/p>\n While in Harrisonburg, he\u2019ll also visit the New Community Project<\/a>, a community organization that \u201cpromotes peace through justice, care for creation, and experiential learning.<\/p>\n \u201cTodd brings vision and experience in\u00a0integrating\u00a0faith, ethics and life-style in ways that inspire and energize,\u201d says Brian Martin Burkholder<\/a>, campus pastor and director of campus ministries. \u201cThere is so much about Todd Wynward that resonates with EMU: his emphasis on sustainable\u00a0living, intentional community, being in meaningful\u00a0relationship with others and with\u00a0all of Creation. Yet he challenges those of us with a \u2018tamed\u2019 Christian faith\u00a0living comfortable lives in our affluent consumerist culture. He helps us to see and reclaim\u00a0the wildness of following Jesus in our daily living.”<\/p>\n