Tag Archives: Nicene Creed
FREE RANGE: FOOD, NATURE, PLACE, AND MORE
The unsteady rock: Descartes, salamanders, and the Nicene Creed
In my last post, I compared saying the Nicene Creed to stepping on unsteady stones across a creek, stepping here and not there, meaning this and not that in an effort not to end up with wet feet and an … Continue reading
Posted in Nature
Tagged Austin American-Statesman, David Abram, Georgetown salamander, Nicene Creed, Rene Descartes, Thomas R. Kelly
5 Comments
This and not that
Last Sunday we attended a dharma teaching at Green Gulch Farm, on the western flanks of Mount Tamalpais, above Muir Beach. It was the kind of morning for which this part of California is famous: foggy and cool with sudden … Continue reading
Posted in More
Tagged Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Marin County, Nicene Creed, Point Reyes National Seashore, Seton Cove, W. B. Yeats
11 Comments
James Cameron, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the nature of nature
In a recent op-ed column in the New York Times, Ross Douthat examines the underlying values of James Cameron’s movie Avatar and links it to a tide of pantheism coursing through Hollywood in particular and America in general. As a … Continue reading
Posted in Nature
Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Avatar, God, James Cameron, Maximus the Confessor, Natalie Angier, nature, Nicene Creed, pantheism, Ross Douthat, vegetarianism
3 Comments