A Pelican of the Wilderness
A Pelican of the Wilderness

Author: Robert W. Griggs

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1620325594

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After serving for more than thirty years as a parish minister, the author was hospitalized with major depression. This is the story of his depression and recovery--a recovery of health, vocation, and faith. First, Griggs regained the experience of small pleasures. Eventually, he recovered the ability to choose, to set limits, and to accept reality. He then turned to the biblical Psalms--indeed his own writing echoes their candor. But he also found hope in films, including Breakfast at Tiffany's and Blazing Saddles. To the mental health issues facing clergy and others in the helping professions Griggs brings to bear insights from research and from his own experience as a pastor and a person recovering from depression. He tells his story with spirit and humor.

Like a Pelican in the Wilderness
Like a Pelican in the Wilderness

Author: Stelios Ramphos

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781885652409

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A dialogue with the teachings of the desert fathers, to see what light they can shed on some of the central theological issues of today.

The Wilderness Warrior
The Wilderness Warrior

Author: Douglas Brinkley

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-07-28

Total Pages: 964

ISBN-13: 0061940577

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From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America’s conservation movement. In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our “naturalist president.” By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I. Roosevelt’s most important legacies led to the creation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and passage of the Antiquities Act in 1906. His executive orders saved such treasures as Devils Tower, the Grand Canyon, and the Petrified Forest.

A Pelican of the Wilderness
A Pelican of the Wilderness

Author: Robert W. Griggs

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1630871583

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After serving for more than thirty years as a parish minister, the author was hospitalized with major depression. This is the story of his depression and recovery--a recovery of health, vocation, and faith. First, Griggs regained the experience of small pleasures. Eventually, he recovered the ability to choose, to set limits, and to accept reality. He then turned to the biblical Psalms--indeed his own writing echoes their candor. But he also found hope in films, including Breakfast at Tiffany's and Blazing Saddles. To the mental health issues facing clergy and others in the helping professions Griggs brings to bear insights from research and from his own experience as a pastor and a person recovering from depression. He tells his story with spirit and humor.

Oregon Wild
Oregon Wild

Author: Andy Kerr

Publisher: Timber Press (OR)

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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With the aid of 40 maps based on new research and stunning color photographs, a noted conservation advocate describes the small fraction of wild forests that remain intact.

Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu
Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu

Author: Jon Turk

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

Published: 2021-09-26

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1771604697

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A provocative look at the vital connection between human beings, the natural world and meaningful knowledge. While tracking a lion with a Samburu headman and then, later, eluding human assailants who may be tracking him, Jon Turk experiences people at their best and worst. As the tracker and the tracked, Jon reveals how the stories we tell each other, and the stories spinning in our heads, can be moulded into innovation, love and co-operation -- or harnessed to launch armies. Seeking escape from the confusion we create for ourselves and our neighbours with our think-too-much-know-it-all brains, Jon finds liberation within a natural world that spins no fiction. Set in a high-adventure narrative on the unforgiving savannah, Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu explores the aboriginal wisdoms that endowed our Stone Age ancestors with the power to survive - and how, since then, myth, art, music, dance, and ceremony have often been hijacked and distorted within our urban, scientific, oil-soaked world.