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Have You Been Outside Today?: The Spiritual Cost of Isolation from Creation

Friday, July 12, 2019

One of the defining features of God’s Word is how often it points us to God’s world. Much of Scripture, in fact, assumes a certain level of understanding about nature. So, it would seem, if we fail to go outdoors, if we fail to experience and engage in God’s creation, our faith could suffer.

Animal “Culture”?: Knocking Humans Down a Peg

Friday, April 5, 2019

A recent article in the national magazine of the Sierra Club asked the question, “Does a Bear Think in the Woods?” Beyond the clever play on the old rhetorical question, the article made the remarkable claim that the intelligence of bears, chimpanzees, and other great apes shares “many properties with our own.”

Have You Been Outside Today?: The Spiritual Cost of Isolation from Creation

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

One of the defining features of God’s Word is how often it points us to God’s world. Much of Scripture, in fact, assumes a level of understanding about nature. So, it would seem, if we fail to go outdoors, if we fail to experience and engage in God’s creation, our faith could suffer.