“Nature” Articles

Courtney Ellis’s careful observations of nature teach her, and us, to find peace during the hardest transitions.

What’s the point of pursuing healing when it doesn’t seem to last? Erin and Hannah discuss in the finale to the Finding Common Ground series.

In both the Word and the world—in spirit and in body—trees sustain us with a grace we don’t deserve.

Erin and Hannah invite James Beitler and Richard Gibson to discuss what we can do when the meaning behind our shared language shifts.

Seasonal patterns, life stages, natural laws—things like these remind us that something greater is happening in the universe, regardless of our personal differences.

What James Herriot did as a vet—and what he does as a storyteller—he shows us the healing nature of healing nature.

A good world that begs—and begets—attention is on display in Gardeners’ World.

For Algernon Blackwood, the natural world is not just natural: it is animated, enchanted, redolent with presences most often detectable only apart from our five senses.

Oliver’s poetry reminds us that astonishment is a bridge between us and the beauty of creation.

The total eclipse can remind us that God, like nature, is also powerful, awful, and sublime.

You don’t need the spiritual gift of mathematics to understand God’s eternal truths made evident in the simplest of addition and subtraction.

Louv asks us to pay attention to nature for our own good, not because we ought to worship nature or devalue human needs, but because nature is fundamental to human health — physical, emotional, and spiritual.