A Tribute to Mama Angelou
byI love cooking. A few years ago, I was in Barnes & Noble and came across a few cookbooks that were written by Maya…
Writing
The Black Snake
byThe other day, as I drove through the National Grasslands, the first image of a pristine prairie I saw was a one hundred car…
Time to Re-Place the Gospel
byHeretical though the title of this essay sounds, there’s no need to warm up the tar or pluck the chickens. The heresy lies not…
Re-Imagining Personhood
by[button color=”redlight” text=”white” url=”http://ecotheo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Trevor-Bechtel-Re-Imagining-Personhood.pdf” window=”_self”]Download Article as a PDF[/button] [separator type=”thin”] Abstract This paper presents a detailed narratival argument for considering animals as persons…
The Poet’s Sword
byI often ask God why he made me a fisherman. And of all the kinds of fishermen he could have made me to be,…
Living Groundwater
byMy walk along the beach near Cornucopia, Wisconsin this February was likely the coldest pilgrimage of my life. I stepped out of my car…
Remembering Rana Plaza
byToday is the one-year anniversary of the death of 1,133 factory workers in the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh. To honor the…
The Missouri River Dinosaur
byThe pallid sturgeon is, perhaps, the least sexy fish in existence. Prehistoric, armored, and occupying the muddy recesses of slow flowing rivers, it is…
Bats, Fungus, Silver and Gold
by“On that day people will throw away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold…” –…
Nature Man
byI once lived in an old apartment where an R.O.U.S. inhabited my bedroom wall For those of you heathens who have not yet seen…