nature

  • “Alone Against the North” by Adam Shoalts

    I first heard about Adam Shoalts — Canada’s Indiana Jones, as one journalist dubbed him — from my wife’s uncle. I was preparing a series of talks for a children’s camp that would all be structured around “adventure.” The angle I was developing was that life with Jesus was the greatest adventure of all, but…

  • Little We See in Nature

    On the built environment as sleep paralysis In RenĂ© Descartes’s Third Meditation on the existence of God, he writes: I will now shut my eyes, stop my ears, and withdraw all my senses. I will eliminate from my thoughts all images of bodily things, or rather, since this is hardly possible, I will regard all such images…