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2013-07-28T22:10:52-06:00

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Why I Am A Christian

Last updated on: July 28, 2013 at 10:10 pm By georgehandley

The first and most obvious answer to the question is that I am a Christian because I believe in Christ as the redeemer of the world. I believe in the reality of Christ’s redemptive powers because of the ways in which devotion to and trust in Christ has helped me to have more love for others, more forgiveness toward those who have hurt me, more patience in suffering, and more hope for humanity. Most importantly, this faith leads me to... Read more

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2013-07-07T20:51:48-06:00

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Great Lovers… of Places

Last updated on: July 7, 2013 at 8:51 pm By georgehandley

William Wordsworth wrote an important book that during his life time vied for the most popular work he ever published. Nowadays it is much less well known. It is called Guide to the Lakes, published first in 1810 and then later expanded in 1835, and in it he provides an elaborate description of the now famous Lake District in England so as to lead his reader into what he hoped would be proper aesthetic appreciation of the area’s qualities. More... Read more

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2013-06-30T15:38:23-06:00

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Gardens and the Art of Self-Reflection

Last updated on: June 30, 2013 at 3:38 pm By georgehandley

Inspired by my recent travels in the UK, including several visits to some of its most outstanding gardens, I have been thinking about the role a garden can play in teaching us about ourselves in the world. A garden is a literal walk through a figurative world or perhaps it is a figurative walk through a literal world. We can never be sure. It is real but artificially designed. It is nature yet very much a manifestation of culture and... Read more

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2013-06-06T10:16:36-06:00

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Balancing Intellect and Faith

Last updated on: June 6, 2013 at 10:16 am By georgehandley

I spoke last week to a group of LDS students at Oxford University about the challenges and opportunities of reconciling faith with intellect. I have written about this before, especially as it relates to the question of scholarship. While there is much to say on the topic, I would like to summarize a few points briefly. (more…) Read more

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2013-05-17T03:06:41-06:00

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Life’s Insubstantial Pageant

Last updated on: May 17, 2013 at 3:06 am By georgehandley

Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” is for me a kind of touchstone. It is the play I know and probably love the best (although “King Lear” is a contender) and the one I have seen most often performed. I read it as an undergraduate and ended up writing my honors thesis on it as my first bona-fide research project. At the time, postcolonial theory was on the rise and all the talk about the play was centering on Prospero’s abuse of Caliban... Read more

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2013-05-06T10:39:33-06:00

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Four Lessons from a Suicide

Last updated on: May 6, 2013 at 10:39 am By georgehandley

In relation to my previous post about patience in suffering and about my brother’s suicide in 1982, about which I write in greater detail in my book, Home Waters, and whom I remembered on the recent anniversary of his death, I wish to reflect on a few things that I feel I have learned in retrospect. These are spiritual lessons, mainly, and they relate to the specific nature of how my brother died, but I hope that they might apply... Read more

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2013-05-01T16:56:49-06:00

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Patience in Suffering

Last updated on: May 1, 2013 at 4:56 pm By georgehandley

NOTE: My book, Home Waters, after which the blog is named, treats the theme of environmental stewardship but not always directly. It also touches on themes of community, human suffering, the humanities (specifically poetry), and theology. While I have devoted most of this blog to themes related to environmental stewardship, I have occasionally touched on these other topics. After completing my first year of blogging, I would like to shift the focus of this blog to these other themes, but... Read more

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2013-04-20T11:24:11-06:00

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Five Paradoxes of Mormon Environmental Advocacy

Last updated on: April 20, 2013 at 11:24 am By georgehandley

This is a brief summary of the speech I gave at the recent Stegner symposium, with a little more elaboration on the final point that I ended up having to rush through. You can see a video of the lecture here. (more…) Read more

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2013-04-18T06:54:27-06:00

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A General Authority Teaches Stewardship

Last updated on: April 18, 2013 at 6:54 am By georgehandley

History was made on Friday. Elder Marcus Nash, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ, spoke as a formal representative of the church at the recent Stegner Symposium on “Religion, Faith, and the Environment” and presented an official view of Mormon stewardship of the earth. The symposium was remarkable in many ways. We heard from ecclesiastical leaders and representatives of evangelical Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. We heard a variety of scholarly... Read more

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2013-04-03T11:54:28-06:00

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Stewardship and Citizenship at the State Level

Last updated on: April 3, 2013 at 11:54 am By georgehandley

Polls in this country indicate a gap between the mainstream voter and elected officials at the state and national levels. I am not sure how different the trends are between the two parties, but there is certainly evidence this has happened on the right. Most recently, for example, we find evidence that a majority of Republicans are concerned about climate change and believe that more should be done to address the problem. This is true on other issues as well,... Read more

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