Lay of the Land
Middle of Nowhere
THERE IS NO ROAD, hasn’t been a road since Gerlach, that crust of a town where we turned from pavement to playa, to hairline-fractured hardpan Continue reading
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Fred Bahnson on Christianity and Climate Change
Climate change raises existential questions—ones that, some argue, exist more comfortably in the realm of morality than science. So might the world’s religious traditions help us face the challenges of the Continue reading
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Women and Standing Rock
Where does the body end and sacred nature begin? Continue reading
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One Good Turn
Five ordinary people put everything on the line in order to shut off the flow of oil through the Keystone Pipeline. Continue reading
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The Axis and the Sycamore
What if the collision between ecology and modern civilization isn’t an environmental problem, but a spiritual one? Continue reading