If you select “Author Resources” on the right sidebar and go to “Discovery Series,” you will find that RBC has published a number of 32-page booklets on the theme of “celebrating the wonder of creation.”  You can read them online, make copies of them, or order multiple copies of them.  They would make challenging and lightweight reading material for a hike or good core reading for small group studies on thinking Christianly about the natural world.

One of the booklets that relates to the issues raised by John Muir is “Celebrating the Wonder of the Wilderness.”  Here’s a quote from the booklet:

Followers of Christ have so many reasons to value the wilderness.  Because we see the natural world as entrusted to us by an infinitely wise Creator, it’s not difficult to see the wilderness as a treasure of inestimable worth.  It allows the wild creatures to fulfill their God-given responsibility to multiply and fill their portion of the earth.

Caring for the wilderness is an aspect of dominion and stewardship mandated to us by our Creator.  Further, it helps to preserve our own health and to assure our continued survival.  Further still, it no doubt holds many future benefits we are currently not even aware of.

Nancy Newhall reminded us over 50 years ago, in a book featuring the masterful black-and-white wilderness photos of Ansel Adams, that “the wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.”

 

Check out the other booklets as well.

See you outdoors!

Dean