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I woke this morning to a fairly rare celestial event that has provided me the inspiration I have been watching for to begin blog-writing aga...

Just a half-mile walk up Parker Road from our Coupeville, Washington home is a gem of an attraction gifted to the region by a generous neigh...

I was fortunate last week to serve as program director of a week-long retreat experience for pastors in our denomination, a retreat we call ...

Strange name for a blogpost? Perhaps. Beulah is one of those unique Bible names, used just once to make a particular point; I happened to co...

Amateur naturalists frequently encounter provocative things as they observe creation, things they may never have seen before and perhaps nev...

There are many, many things in nature that catch one’s eye, and a rarer few that catch one’s soul. One such thing caught me recently that de...

I don’t want to make too much of it, but it seemed more than a coincidence. It was Earth Day, and I had been thinking a lot about that as th...

( "Blowin’ in the Wind" is a periodic feature on my blog containing an assortment of nature writings – songs, excerpts, poems, pr...

("Blowin’ in the Wind" is a periodic feature on my blog containing an assortment of nature writings – songs, excerpts, poems, pray...

Sure, the typical default of us who believe that it truly was God who created all things is this sense that God did so at some point in the ...

Call it bloggers’ block or writers’ block or whatever, but anyone who regularly follows my blog has found that I haven’t posted during this ...

I stand atop a rickety footbridge, under which swiftly flows from the Canadian Rockies into its eastern foothills a cold and shallow but fai...

Three weeks ago today, Gail and I had the ‘blessing’ of the season’s very first snowfall while battening down the hatches to abandon for the...

Well, not everything. But, with a head nod to Robert Fulghum, there is sure a lot about the Christian life one can learn from a nursery stum...