Tony Jones’s meditative memoir "The God of Wild Places" is about leaving the ministry but remaining alive to spirituality through outdoor adventures in Minnesota and further afield. It was Jones’s childhood ambition to become a... Read More

In Susan Sullivan’s uplifting chapter book "Bob Tales", a stray feline is rescued, seeks adventures, and learns that he’s capable and loved. At first mangy and unnamed, Bob is a black cat who scavenges on the streets and retreats... Read More

The creative, bracing essays of Rebecca May Johnson’s "Small Fires" redefine the act of cooking and elevate the value of domestic labor. They critique what it means to interpret recipes; with a combination of intellectual rigor and... Read More

In "Return to My Trees", Matthew Yeomans contemplates what can be done about the separation between humans and nature during a 300-mile hike through the woodlands of Wales. To benefit its citizens and the environment, the Welsh... Read More

The essays of Louise Gray’s "Avocado Anxiety" investigate the nature of food consumption in a global economy. Sparked by a deep need to understand where her family’s food was coming from and how it was processed, Gray began to... Read More

In his Christian studies text "Tell Her Story", Nijay K. Gupta retells the stories of the Bible’s women leaders. Covering women leaders in the time before the early church and women leaders of the early church, and with a section that... Read More

“We are all apocalyptic now”: such is the solemn, realistic conclusion that Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen reach in "An Inconvenient Apocalypse", a hard-hitting philosophical reckoning with climate breakdowns, and with the social... Read More

In Beebe Bahrami’s "The Way of the Wild Goose", a mystery, the wild feminine, and trail magic come together on the Camino de Santiago. Carrying a pack filled with “just in case” items, Bahrami set out to walk the Camino, feeling... Read More