Essays & Articles
I start each piece I write, whether it’s an essay, an article, or a book, with a fascination and question. The fascination is for something I’ve witnessed or heard about or experienced—and want to know more about. I don’t just want to go deeper into the subject, however, I want to go broader as well. What does this fascination have to tell us? How is some act or idea from the present related to a mythic story from long ago? How might it be useful for some conundrum we face today?
SOME RECENT ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
(articles in bold type have clickable links)
Lament and Praise for the Earth
Parabola, October 2024
Earth Hospice: Hearing the Cries of the Earth
Kosmos, May 24, 2024
11 Interventions in the 10 Days of Your Dying
Orion, August 2023
The Juniper Tree
Kosmos Journal, Winter 2022
Kissed by Fire
Parabola, Fall 2021
The Coal Remembers
Essay in the Practice volume of 5-volume Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
Center for Humans and Nature, 2021
Guerrilla Beauty
Humans and Nature, Spring 2021
Holy Land, Living Water
Unity Earth, Summer 2020
On the Moors of Omaha
Fine Lines, 2019 Spring
Equipment List for the Journey Home
Parabola, Fall 2018
Spiritual Activists Confront the Woes of the Planet:
The 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions
Parabola, Spring 2019.
You Are Now Entering the Environment
Minding Nature, January 2018.
Uncommon Gratitude
Orion, July-August 2015
Devoting: Meetings with the Force That Impels Faith
Parabola, Fall, 2014
Gifts for Broken Places
Ecopsychology, March 2014
Gaze Even Here
Orion, November-December, 2012
Reuniting with Wounded Places
The Ecologist, January 21, 2013
Where’s the Temple?
Parabola, Fall 2011
Rituals for Wastelands
Spirituality & Health, July/August 2009
Without Heart You Have Nothing
Parabola, Fall 2009
Getting to Aha
Spirituality & Health, July-August 2008
The Second Creation Story: Redefining the Bond Between Religion and Ecology
Sierra, 1998
Monster of Grim Prospects
Parabola, Fall 1998
Reprinted in The Inner Journey: Myth, Psyche, and Spirit,
Ed. Martha Heyneman, Morning Light Press, 2008
In My Backyard? Sure!
Harper’s, April 1994