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Crawford, Robert W.

Arts & Photography

Western States Art Foundation

What is our place in nature? Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have has exercised unprecedented dominance over nature, with consequences that are now catching up with us. Many have pointed to Christianity as a culprit. Yet Christianity actually teaches that our relationship to nature should not be one of contempt or disassociation. Rather, according to ancient church tradition, nature is a book to be read, revealing truths about its creator and ours. At a time when many moderns are unsure of what difference, if any, marks us out from other living beings on our planet, and of what our place in the natural world ought to be, what might nature itself tell us about how to live within it? On this theme: Peter Mommsen asks if humans should live by nature's laws. Colin Boller interviews farmers successfully shifting to regenerative agriculture. Caroline Moore introduces some of Britain's amazing moths. Daniel Stulac wonders what the Promised Land means in Saskatchewan. Clare Coffey defends dandelions in lawns. Rhys Laverty reports on man's battle with the sea at the Alderney breakwater. William Thomas Okie explores the old idea that plants reveal their uses. Greta Gaffin looks at our relationship to wolves, and Saint Francis's. Norann Voll remembers lambing with her father. Tim Maendel finds peace by hunting. Erik Varden asks if the Christian teaching on chastity is unnatural. David McBride translates "The Leper of Abercuawg," an old Welsh poem. Maureen Swinger watches meteor showers. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to apply their faith to the challenges we face. Each issue includes in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art.

Plough Quarterly No. 39 – The Riddle of Nature (Plough Quarterly, 39)

Science & Math

Wilbert, Lore Ferguson

McBride, David

Varden, Erik

Clarkson, Joy Marie

Okie, William Thomas

Voll, Norann

Stulac, Daniel J. D.

Moore, Caroline

Laverty, Rhys

Coffey, Clare

Parham, Angel Adams

Gaffin, Greta

Kleczek, Casey

Keiderling, Timothy J.

Biological Sciences

Plough Publishing House

"In these gracefully formal poems, Robert Crawford has captured so much about human experience that the first words that come to mind to describe them have to be rejected as too limiting. They are ‘regional poems’ in the best sense; they are ‘love poems,’ and include some of the best examples of that timeless genre that I’ve read in years; they are ‘nature poems’ that convey the landscape through careful observation, as when the poet notes ‘Odd oak leaves left to crab across the snow.’ They include insightful character studies; taut narratives and revealing dialogues; elegies that create a kind of unheard music; dark ruminations on the gaps between desire and fulfillment; barbed humor; witty fantasies; delicately erotic, melancholy evocations of moments always felt to be passing. ‘Stranger by a Window, Waiting for a Flight,’ takes the reader through a life lived—and dismissed—in an instant of thought that has an unnerving resemblance to reality. I am eager for a! second book from Robert Crawford."—Rhina P. Espaillat

Too Much Explanation Can Ruin a Man

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

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