At the Intersection of Theology, Nature, and the Arts
I'm still struggling to overcome the Internet connectivity issues here at Grand Canyon that have prevented me from posting on this blog in recent weeks. I have hundreds of photographs to share and have been working on stories about the geological features, wildlife, hiking trails, and human history of this Natural Wonder of the World. …
Earlier this week, while I was standing in a book shop at Grand Canyon National Park, a young twenty or thirty-something man walked up to me and slid a manila envelope on to the counter that lay between us. He flashed a broad smile and said he had something he wished to share with me. …
Continue reading "Chad: Fully Persuaded and Totally Convinced"
As I walked up from the Kolb Studio and arrived at the El Tovar on the South Rim, the Grand Canyon’s Park Superintendent greeted me with a broad smile and a gentle fist bump. Dave Uberuaga’s great delight over the reopening of Arizona’s treasured landmark emanated from him like a beacon. We joined a crowd …
Following a week of mishaps and misadventures on the road, we arrived at Grand Canyon National Park on September 23. We'll be spending the next several months living in and exploring the park and surrounds. As most every reader will know, the shutdown of the U.S. government on Oct. 1 forced the closure of the park …
Continue reading "Grand Canyon National Park on Day Nine of the Government Shutdown"
I came across an article on Life News yesterday that was entitled, “Press Laments Loss of Baby Panda, Ignores Loss of 1.2 Million Human Babies.”* In the piece, the author—Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee—lamented that the death of a panda at the National Zoo was receiving more attention from the …
“I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.” – Lord Dunsany
"...[One] should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The silk tapestries seen here represent the combined efforts …
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” – Winston Churchill
In the next episode of On the Road with Mac and Molly, I chat with Kathryn Bertok, Curator of Animals at the Carolina Tiger Rescue. The organization, formerly known as the Carnivore Preservation Trust, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit wildlife sanctuary whose mission is saving and protecting wild cats in captivity and in the wild. LISTEN …
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