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December 2012

December 16, 2012

In Memoriam: Kenny Handley, April 13, 1960-December 16, 1982

Today is the 30th anniversary of the death of my wonderful brother, Kenny, who tragically...

December 13, 2012

Cross-post, on Mormon Environmentalism and Political Advocacy

December 11, 2012

Love of Nature

Woody Allen, no nature lover, was fond of saying, “Nature and I are two.” Which...

December 08, 2012

On Parenting, Love, and Surprise

“Love is not love,” famously wrote Shakespeare, “Which alters when it alteration finds.” Love’s high...

November 2012

November 25, 2012

What Good is the Earth?

In Genesis, we are told that God pronounced the earth and all of its creations...

November 21, 2012

Giving Thanks

In the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln promoted the holiday of Thanksgiving....

November 17, 2012

Faith and Scholarship

I am a scholar but I am also a believer in religion, my LDS religion...

November 11, 2012

Exploring Environmental Stewardship at BYU

In a recent post, I described the general questions that would be explored at the...

November 04, 2012

A Podcast of a Recent Interview

Below is a link to a recent interview I gave for Kirk Caudle at Mormon...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Conservation, Restoration, and Sustainability: A Call to Stewardship

This is the title of an upcoming symposium on November 8-10, free and open to...

October 28, 2012

Faith and the Origins of Prejudice: A Sunday Sermon

Belief in God would seem to be a straightforward matter. You either believe or you...

October 26, 2012

What are the Environmental Humanities?

Environmental humanities is a new term that we see increasingly used at universities to describe...

October 21, 2012

What value are the humanities?

It is not uncommon these days to hear doubts expressed about the value of a...

October 17, 2012

Prejudice and its Discontents

I recently traveled to Germany, a country where I spent six months of my life...

October 07, 2012

The Enchanted Landscape

The sociologist Max Weber once described scientific understanding as leading to a disenchantment of nature....

October 02, 2012

Climate Change, “Free” Markets, and Politics

BYU sponsored a conference on Europe this week, and one of the panels was devoted...

September 2012

September 30, 2012

Poetry and Politics, again

Mark Strand recently read his poetry on campus at BYU. In the question and answer...

September 23, 2012

Civility and the Possibility of Community

At the risk of repeating what I have already said about community and about politics,...

September 16, 2012

“And now I know that man is nothing”

I confess to feeling my utter insignificance. Even when I imagine my life as having...

September 09, 2012

Family Relationships and the Outdoors

Recently I was asked to be on the Mike Townsend show at KBYU Radio. Mike...

September 06, 2012

Environmental Stewardship and Mormon Belief

I will be speaking next week at a fireside in a neighboring stake. The topic...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

The Huckabee Paradox

If you care about the religious values of a political candidate, it is because you...

August 29, 2012

What of Romney’s Mormonism?

Home Waters is a blog that is occasionally dedicated to policy issues, particularly as they...

August 21, 2012

Ecospirituality Workshop (Day #4)

On our final day, we spent the morning listening to a wonderful explication of Buddhist...

August 20, 2012

Ecospirituality Workshop (Day #3)

We spent the morning sitting outside in the sunshine, sharing our nature writing with one...

August 19, 2012

Ecospirituality Workshop (Day #2)

We began the second day discussing the art of nature writing. Tom had asked the...

August 18, 2012

Ecospirituality Workshop (Day #1)

I have been in Centennial Valley in Montana, a very remote and marvelously beautiful valley...

August 13, 2012

Letter to a student (final excerpt #3)

When faced with the extremism of Pharisees, I know it is common to insist that...

August 09, 2012

Letter to a Student (excerpt #2)

It is fair and important to look at the institutional church and ask, “Are the...

August 05, 2012

Letter to a student (excerpt #1)

I wish to post a series of thoughts extracted and revised from a letter I...