August 2011

31 Aug 2011

Sabbath in Wilderness

 As the last light of summer graces fields and faces, people of all colors, creeds, and kinds turn for one last dip in the golden cup. Families pile into would-be wagons and trace the rivers to the woods. Fathers and cousins scrape off the grill...

19 Aug 2011

God’s Country

  The summer sun is constant while cotton clouds cast shifting shadows on the mountains and prairies of western Montana. Structures aging and ageless tell the stories of fortunes made and lost while oscillating between working with and taking from the land. Modern day prospectors float...

19 Aug 2011

Untold Tales

Some of the best tales go untold. This is a sad fact of life. Adventures go on all around us that would stump the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Relationships unfold in meaningful and slow ways that cannot be conveyed easily. Some tales are just too big...

12 Aug 2011

On Humility

While waiting for the day to warm enough to justify a swim in the Little Spokane River the other day, I read through the latter portion of Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” Amidst the strikingly confident language, what stood out to me was a sense of...

08 Aug 2011

Rearview Review: West Coast

As I turn my handlebars east, it is important that I take some time to reflect upon the Christian responses to climate change I have observed thus far on the trip. This task requires a wide brush whose strokes will undoubtedly pass over details of...