Featured

Meeting the Wolf
Should we go back to nature? Saint Anthony and Saint Francis show how to make peace with it instead.
Greta Gaffin
Essay
Saskatchewan, Promised Land
A newcomer to the Canadian prairie searches for the Old Testament promise.
Daniel J. D. Stulac
Essay
Saving the Soil, Saving the Farm
Regenerative agriculture helps farmers care for the land and pay the bills.
Colin Boller
Report
The Plants Can Talk
The flowers have a language. Are we listening?
William Thomas Okie
Essay
The Wonder of Moths
Gorgeous and fragile, moths showcase nature’s richness and vulnerability.
Caroline Moore
Portfolio
The Leper of Abercuawg
In a thousand-year-old Welsh poem, an outcast seeks comfort in the wild.
David McBride
Essay

Insights

Dandelions: An Apology
Why sweat lawn care when you could have a meadow, green and gold, by working a little less?
Clare Coffey
Essay
A Wilderness God
In the Holy Land, the desert is a place of hope.
Timothy J Keiderling
Bible Reflection
Why I Hunt
In the woods, being a predator connects me to our species’ natural history.
Tim Maendel
Personal History
Reading the Book of Nature
Four writers study the divine as revealed in the natural world.
Lilias Trotter
Gerard M Hopkins
Augustine of Hippo
George MacDonald
Reading
Breakwater
In the Channel Islands, a crumbling jetty protects a way of life.
Rhys Laverty
Dispatch
Lambing Season
I learned some of life’s most important lessons from my father while caring for sheep.
Norann Voll
Personal History
Earthworks Urban Farm
At a community garden in Detroit, kids grow food to supply a soup kitchen.
Casey Kleczek
Doers

Web Exclusives

Back from Walden Pond
Is Thoreau, who sought a deliberate life in tune with nature, the prophet for our present ecological crisis? Perhaps, if we learn from his errors.
Ian Olson
Essay
Can Masculinity Be Good?
Or is it a problem to be eradicated?
Samuel Helyar
Essay
Nature Is Obsessed with Me
Spiders, wasps, and mold – they’re my neighbors, but can I love them?
Annemarie Konzelman
Ancient Songs in the Desert
For Ephrem the Syrian, nature shows us truths about the Creator.
Tessa Carman

Arts & Letters

Let Them Grow
The poet shares his hopes for his grandsons.
Robert W. Crawford
Poetry
Squall
Sometimes, being prepared is annoying.
Robert W. Crawford
Poetry
Are You a Tree?
Or are you a potted plant?
Joy Marie Clarkson
Reading
Practicing Christianity
In Christianity as a Way of Life, Kevin W. Hector says faith is about what we do, not just what we believe.
Andrew Prevot
Editors’ Picks
Who Gets to Tell the Story?
In R. F. Kuang’s Yellowface a woman sells her dead friend's novel as her own.
Lore Ferguson Wilbert
Editors’ Picks
A Medievalist Looks for the Image of Christ
In Jesus through Medieval Eyes, Grace Hamman finds the Lord portrayed as a knight, a mother, a judge, and a lover.
Marianne Wright
Editors’ Picks
In Defense of Chastity
Is the church’s teaching on sex unnatural?
Erik Varden
Reading