SOME RECENT ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

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

Gifts in the Promised Land: A Pilgrimage of Spirit, Song, and Friendship
Parabola, Summer 2020

On the Moors of Omaha
Fine Lines, 2019 Spring Issue

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.
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You Are Now Entering the Environment
Minding Nature, January 2018.

Uncommon Gratitude
Orion, July-August 2015

Essays & Articles

(A Selection)

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 am curious to know more. 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?

Devoting: Meetings with the Force That Impels Faith
Parabola, Fall, 2014
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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
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Getting to Aha
Spirituality & Health, July-August 2008
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Walking Like Lions
Second Journey, Fall 2007

Falling In Desire, Landing Whole
Life Challenges, 2006

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
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