Spirituality in Nature Book Club
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Monday, Mar 10, 2025 6:30pm - 8pm
Location
Green Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
1313 Main Street
Details
March's Selection:
Backpacking with the Saints; Wilderness Hiking as a Spiritual Practice by Belden C. Lane © 2015
Our connection to the natural world is a deep and inherent bond that transcends time and space. It is a relationship that has shaped our existence for millennia. Do you want to learn more about your connection to the natural world? Join us in a book club to explore the spiritual connection in nature beyond religion as we read all types of books to help you explore your spirituality in a non-traditional way. All discussions are in person at GBAUUF. Open to the public!
March's Selection:
Backpacking with the Saints; Wilderness Hiking as a Spiritual Practice by Belden C. Lane © 2015
The discipline of backpacking, Lane shows, is a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Just as the wilderness offered revelations to the early Desert Christians, backpacking hones crucial spiritual skills: paying attention, traveling light, practicing silence, and exercising wonder. Lane engages the practice not only with a wide range of spiritual writings--Celtic, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Hindu, and Sufi Muslim--but with the fascination of other lovers of the back country, from John Muir and Ed Abbey to Bill Plotkin and Cheryl Strayed. In this intimate and down-to-earth narrative, backpacking is shown to be a spiritual practice that allows the discovery of God amidst the beauty and unexpected terrors of nature. Adoration, Lane suggests, is the most appropriate human response to what we cannot explain, but have nonetheless learned to love.
