Open Our Eyes – Mar. 20, 2023
“The very places Indiana bats trusted to preserve them betrayed them. Cool, dark, and humid, cave air not only holds bats in metabolic equipoise, it also invigorates a fungus new to North America. Brought from Europe on spelunkers’ gear, spores of the fungus multiplied rampantly in caves of northeastern states, then spread farther and faster […]
The One Who Has Two Coats – Dec. 9, 2022
“When the people asked him, “What should we do?” John replied, “Let the one who has two coats share with the one who has none. Let those who have food do the same.”” -Luke 3:10-11, The Inclusive Bible
Turtle’s Waiting – Nov. 28, 2022
“Sunk in its bottom-mud, for six months she will not draw air into her lungs. To survive a cold that would kill her, or slow her so that predators would kill her, she slows herself beyond breath in a place where breath is not possible… It’s this radical simplicity that will save her. And deep […]
Never Alone – Nov. 5, 2021
“When things fall apart and we can’t get the pieces back together, when we lose something dear to us, when they whole thing is just not working and we don’t know what to do, this is the time when the natural warmth of tenderness, the warmth of empathy and kindness, are just waiting to be […]
