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Discussing Companionship with Nature

By: Tracy Simmons

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October 7, 2014

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James Hunt, professor of history emeritus at Whitworth University, and co-founder of The Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship, will lead a discussion titled “Companionship with Nature: Young John Muir” at The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist on Wednesday from 7-9 p.m.

At the event Hunt will talk about the questions that consciously or unconsciously inform one’s approach to the earth, including:

How should persons informed by Christian faith view their relationship with nature?
Can youthful travel that engages a person be as transformative to their thinking as it was to John Muir‘s?
Is the relationship one of dominion, stewardship, or creation care?

Muir was a naturalist and preservationist who lived at the turn of the 19th century.

The program will begin at 7 p.m. and babysitting is available. Eucharist will be offered at 6:15 p.m.

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Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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