In this splendid book Belden Lane has made a double contribution—to the reordering of our perspectives on creation and to our understanding of the Reformed tradition as a contributor to this ...

It’s a commonly held wisdom that somewhere along life’s way we lose ourselves. It’s assumed that the self, whatever it might be, cannot stay lost, not without potentially disastrous results, and must ...

A single tree grows on a wilderness hillside in Northern California. Its name is presidio manzanita. Its world population is one. When I stood before a photograph of this tree in an exhibit of ...

Lane’s work blends genres, combining the literature of the outdoors with the formal literature of the spiritual as he reviews the work of the world’s prominent religious and spiritual writers and ties ...

Lane scores on every shot. He awakens a thesis that the 16th-century Reformers desired a God whose beauty is reflected "generously (and flagrantly) in the world of nature." He rescues founders of ...