Tag Archives: Creator

Heartsick In Yosemite

From Dean Ohlman on January 12, 2012

At the age of 37 I entered a three-year “dark night of the soul” called mid-life crisis.  No, I didn’t buy a red sports car, abandon my family, and become a beach bum.  Mostly I cried a lot.  Sometimes at … Continue reading »

Earth Theology

From Dean Ohlman on January 10, 2012

Earth theology. That phrase likely makes many conservative Christians uncomfortable.  It shouldn’t.  Whose earth is it anyway?  Does it belong to the New Agers?  Does it belong to the secular humanists?  To the pagans?  To the pantheists?  No it does … Continue reading »

“Far As the Curse Is Found”

From Dean Ohlman on December 25, 2011

Currently lost in my files is a print of a painting that depicts Jesus in the arms of Mary with a small bird perched on His finger. That and this etching in which it seems that Jesus is instructing Mary … Continue reading »

Nature and Worship

From Dean Ohlman on December 18, 2011

I’m enjoying a new book on our relationship to the natural world: Living With Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology by Richard Bauckham.  Bauckham, an evangelical Cambridge theologian, is a fellow in the British Academy and the Royal Society of … Continue reading »

Living In a Miracle

From Dean Ohlman on December 1, 2011

We just escaped a major snowfall a couple days ago. So here we are on December 1, having had no measurable snow. Yesterday was cold, but sunny, and I was able to collect some rose hips and spruce boughs for … Continue reading »