Brand new book! A personal account of my work with Catholic monks in the American work, and what they have taught me about dwelling in place.

‘A Spiritual Ecology of Apocalypse’ (2022)

‘Managing for Spiritual and Ecological Values: A Brief History of Monastic Forestry’ (2021)

‘The Greening of Loneliness‘, Op-Ed in the Province Newspaper

‘Whether a Christian Animism‘, Book Review, Minding Nature (2020)

Chapter in the book: Dwelling in Political Landscapes (2019)

‘Charged Moments: Landscape and the Experience of the Sacred Among Catholic Monks in North America’ (2019)

The ‘Greening’ of Christian Monasticism and the Future of Monastic Landscapes in North America (2019)

Managing for the Spirit: Valuing the Mormon Sacred Grove
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture 12 (3) (2018)

Thomas Merton, Wildness and the Sacramental Power of Place (2016)

PhD Dissertation

• Dwelling in the Wilderness: Place, Landscape and the Sacred Among Catholic Monks of the American West 

Christ and Cascadia Journal 

• ‘Desert Spirituality for the Rainforest’

Guatemalan Community Forestry 

• ‘They do not know how to take care of the forest’: Analysing state-sponsored decentralization of forest management in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan”

(This book chapter is from my undergraduate thesis, which our wonderful mentors at BYU helped polish into something passable as scholarship.)

Post-Nature

• An Orange County Almanac (This is the original essay, it won an award!)
• Here is a later version that was also published in the edited volume Coming of Age in at the End of Nature
• Another version was posted at On Being.
• Make sure to follow the work of The Center for Humans and Nature! I wrote this for them: Wildness in the City: An Encounter with two Barred Owls and their Dinner
• And this: A Coyote Drank my Latte: Encounters with Suburban Wildness

Ecological Theology

• Sacred Groves Sunstone Magazine Article 
• This was my first Peer-reviewed essay! It is about Mormon Eco-theology. Whither Mormon Environmental Theology? (Dialogue Journal)
• This was a reflection on my time as a forester for the Yale forest during the season of 2011. I posted them over at: Our Mother’s Keeper: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6

Mormon Studies

• Plotino Constantino Rhodakanaty: Introduction to a Mormon Anarchist
• Cooperation: A Common Principle of Mormonism and Anarchism
• The Zion/Babylon dualism in Mormonism and Anarchism
• The Beehive and the Steel Mill: Rethinking the Protestant Work Ethic