Featured

Gray wolf walking through a forest with autumn-colored grass and trees.
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
Orange detour road sign with right arrow in a rural field under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
Saskatchewan, Promised Land
A newcomer to the Canadian prairie searches for the Old Testament promise.
Daniel J. D. Stulac
Essay
Wide green field with three small wooden barns and mountains in the background under a cloudy sky.
Saving the Soil, Saving the Farm
Regenerative agriculture helps farmers care for the land and pay the bills.
Colin Boller
Report
White and blue botanical silhouettes of various plants and insects against a dark blue background.
The Plants Can Talk
The flowers have a language. Are we listening?
William Thomas Okie
Essay
Two colorful moths with eye-like patterns resting on a light textured surface near green foliage.
The Wonder of Moths
Gorgeous and fragile, moths showcase nature’s richness and vulnerability.
Caroline Moore
Portfolio
Painting of rugged rocky cliff with a person in green jacket and hat near the top right corner.
The Leper of Abercuawg
In a thousand-year-old Welsh poem, an outcast seeks comfort in the wild.
David McBride
Essay

Insights

Artistic depiction of dandelions with jagged leaves and flower heads in shades of green and yellow.
Dandelions: An Apology
Why sweat lawn care when you could have a meadow, green and gold, by working a little less?
Clare Coffey
Essay
Watercolor painting of rolling golden hills beneath a partly cloudy blue sky.
A Wilderness God
In the Holy Land, the desert is a place of hope.
Timothy J Keiderling
Bible Reflection
Hunter wearing camouflage gear and hat holding a compound bow in a misty forest.
Why I Hunt
In the woods, being a predator connects me to our species’ natural history.
Tim Maendel
Personal History
Watercolor painting of branches with white blossoms and yellow autumn leaves on a blue-gray background.
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
Large waves crashing over a stone pier into a turbulent sea under a cloudy sky.
Breakwater
In the Channel Islands, a crumbling jetty protects a way of life.
Rhys Laverty
Dispatch
Young lamb standing on straw inside a barn with other lambs nearby and a blue container.
Lambing Season
I learned some of life’s most important lessons from my father while caring for sheep.
Norann Voll
Personal History
Four young people using garden tools while working outdoors in a green, sunny garden area.
Earthworks Urban Farm
At a community garden in Detroit, kids grow food to supply a soup kitchen.
Casey Kleczek
The Doers

Web Exclusives

A serene pond with lily pads surrounded by dense tall grasses and wildflowers at dusk.
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
Silhouette of a child flexing both arms against a clear blue sky background.
Can Masculinity Be Good?
Or is it a problem to be eradicated?
Samuel Helyar
Essay
Several wasps clustered on and flying around the corner of a gray concrete post.
Nature Is Obsessed with Me
Spiders, wasps, and mold – they’re my neighbors, but can I love them?
Annemarie Konzelman
Close-up of two white flowers with petals on a textured brown and yellow background.
Ancient Songs in the Desert
For Ephrem the Syrian, nature shows us truths about the Creator.
Tessa Carman

Arts & Letters

Grainy black and white image of several birds flying against a cloudy sky.
Let Them Grow
The poet shares his hopes for his grandsons.
Robert W. Crawford
Poem
Grainy black-and-white image of two people holding umbrellas walking on a hill.
Squall
Sometimes, being prepared is annoying.
Robert W. Crawford
Poem
Symmetrical floral pattern with large beige leaves, blue tulip-like flowers, and small red blossoms on beige background.
Are You a Tree?
Or are you a potted plant?
Joy Marie Clarkson
Reading
Book cover titled 'Christianity as a Way of Life: A Systematic Theology' by Kevin W. Hector.
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’ Pick
Yellow book cover with stylized eyes and bold title 'Yellowface' by R.F. Kuang on a blue marbled background.
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’ Pick
Book cover: Jesus through Medieval Eyes by Grace Hamman, with gold halos around medieval figures' heads.
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’ Pick
Sunlight beams shining through a rocky cliff opening onto a lush, forested landscape with figure silhouettes.
In Defense of Chastity
Is the church’s teaching on sex unnatural?
Erik Varden
Reading