Integral Ecology
Against Thin Stewardship
Why land, household economy, neighborhood institutions, and worship should be read in the same grammar.
Stewardship becomes thin when it is reduced to sentiment, signage, or compliance. A thicker account begins by noticing that land is never merely resource, household economy is never merely private, and institutional life is never merely administrative.
Integral ecology is useful because it refuses to let those categories drift apart. It asks whether the care of creation, the care of families, the care of neighborhoods, and the care of worshiping communities are different names for one discipline.
The answer is not a slogan. It is a pattern of repair: slower attention, better inheritance, and development choices that can survive being judged by the people who live with them.