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A catechism of nature (2): the vernal transgression of boundaries
Originally published at Covenant, May 10, 2016.One of my favorite places to visit in the spring is a creek running through a farm at the precise point where geology has dictated that man should stop...
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A catechism of nature (3): edge effect
Originally published at Covenant, June 7, 2016.The Gospels indicate that mankind lives on a cosmic boundary, between the treading down of Jerusalem and the end of all things. The Lord called this...
View Articledispatch from a white priest in Dallas
Originally published at Covenant, July 18, 2016.Two Sundays ago, churchgoers heard in the familiar story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) Jesus’ answer to a question put to him by “a lawyer,”...
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A catechism of nature (4): the sea
Originally published at Covenant, August 16, 2016.What can the sea tell her,That she does not now know, and know how to bear?She knows, as the sea, that what came will recur,And detached in that...
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A catechism of nature (5): autumn
Originally published at Covenant, December 2, 2016.I.Anglo-American folklore has designated October’s full moon the Hunter’s Moon, much as September’s is called the Harvest Moon. They mark the arrival...
View ArticleAudacious alternatives: clean energy and justice at Standing Rock
Originally published in The Living Church magazine, 2016.On December 4, the Army Corps of Engineers announced that it would deny permission for the Dakota Access Pipeline to pass under Lake Oahe, the...
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Evangelical catholicism: the ecclesiological vision of archbishop Michael Ramsey
Originally published at Covenant, in 2007. Slightly revised and republished in two parts in 2017, here, and here.It was suggested to me that I might usefully write something around the...
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A catechism of nature (6): circles of disturbance and perception
Originally published at Covenant, February 8, 2017.I love squirrel hunting, and I go as often as I can. Ironically, I haven’t killed a squirrel in years. That doesn’t matter to me. If I killed one, I...
View ArticleOn the precipice of Holy Week
Originally published at Covenant, April 9, 2017.Palm Sunday is to me the most disorienting liturgy of the year. We begin with a festal procession, waving palm fronds and shouting our Hosannas to the...
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Edward Abbey, righteous Gentile (a short appreciation)
Originally published at Covenant, June 28, 2017.I am a slow reader. I chalk this up to my most formative training having been in analytic philosophy, a discipline in which if one does not read slowly,...
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Think globally; fish locally
Originally published at the Marine Fish Conservation Network’s blog, January 23, 2018.A thought that saturates my consciousness with respect to conservation in general is what I have come to think of...
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Yosemite, 1903, and two poles in fisheries management
Originally published at the Marine Fish Conservation Network’s blog, January 30, 2018. In his 1977 book, The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry identified two poles running through America’s...
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Deserts and oceans: what bighorn sheep can teach us about marine fisheries
Originally published at the Marine Fish Conservation Network’s blog, March 9, 2018.A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to assist with a desert bighorn sheep (ovis canadensis nelsoni)...
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To risk stating the obvious, seafood comes from the sea
Originally published at the Marine Fish Conservation Network’s blog, August, 2018.I love fishing. I also love seafood. As a recreational fisherman, I almost invariably release what I catch. Which,...
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Abundant game species need conscientious & engaged sportsmen
Originally published at the Marine Fish Conservation Network’s blog, October, 2018.To me, September 1st means the beginning of the end of summer. It’s the opening day of dove season, and the beginning...
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Pronghorn restoration and the future of US fisheries
Pronghorn translocation via helicopter, Rita Blanca National Grasslands. Originally published at the Marine Fish Conservation Network’s blog, December, 2018.I am fascinated by pronghorn antelopes. I...
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In the beginning: a theological foundation for environmental ethics
Originally published at Covenant, March, 2019.Come now, I will tell thee—and do thou hearken to my saying and carry it away—the only two ways of search that can be thought of.The first, namely, that...
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technology and the sacramentality of created nature
A sermon preached at All Saints’ Church, on the 5th Sunday of Lent, 2019.“Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters… Behold, I will do a new thing; now it...
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Firearm Spirituality: Lessons from a 30.06
A version of this essay was first published at Covenant, February 16, 2022.I am a hunter. I have written a fair amount about hunting from a theological point of view. Among other things, hunting...
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Saving Southern Appalachian Brook Trout
A version of this essay was originally published at the blog of the Marine Fish Conservation Network, September 7, 2022.For many Americans, summer offers a chance to get away and re-create outside....
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