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Conversations with Creation brings together essay, poetry, and prayer into a journey into the natural world. It invites readers to draw on their own experiences with nature to discover resources to face the climate crisis with hope. Drawing on the teachings of indigenous elders, the conversation participates in a broader dialogue between humans and nature to create a tapestry of image, emotion, and action. Join author Ted Huffman as he paddles, walks, and explores the natural world. Discover lessons taught by honeybees and bears. Find your way to join the ongoing conversation of life.

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""Come with Ted as he walks, or sits, or kayaks, and experiences this world, from the Grand Canyon to far-off galaxies to the workings of a honeybee, and reflects on these experiences with a careful eye, a gentle heart, and an encouraging voice. Ted reflects on life and death and love (yes, there is a love story!), evoking wonder and gratitude, aware of the ways we threaten Creation, but leading us to a place of hope."" - Steve Garnaas-Holmes, author of Unfolding Light. ""In Ted Huffman's Conversations with Creation, he shows us the unfailing beauty and resilience of the earth, its vast plains, mountains, rivers, and living creatures, while describing an ongoing awareness of the complexity of community, especially now in the time of climate crisis. These essays and poems bring us the stories and facts, while the heartfelt prayers remind us of the resilience of our own humanity."" Linda Conroy, author of Familiar Sky and Ordinary Signs."" ""With prayers, poems, and essays, Rev. Ted Huffman provides meaningful opportunities to connect with nature and the sacred. Conversations with Creation is a gift that awakens the reader to living deeply and fully."" Lynne Hinton, author of more than twenty books including NY Times Bestseller, Friendship Cake, Meditations for Walking and The Beekeeper's Wife. ""Ted Huffman has a broad and deep relationship with this world of ours. His new book is a beautiful account of his love affair with creation."" -Doug Favero, author of A Big Picture: What We Stand On and How We Rise and 40 Years in the Psychotherapist's Chair: Guide to Psychological Growth and Psychotherapy. ""Through prose and poetry Ted Huffman invites us to become more attentive to the world around us and to deepen our relationship with it and with each other. Using stories from his life growing up and growing old, Huffman shows that beauty can be found when we look for it-but it is our responsibility to care for it."" Johann Neem, history professor, Western Washington University, and author of Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America. ""Grounded in place and experience, Conversations with Creation, is both a prescient guide for paying attention and a deep meditation on beauty in all its forms. As Huffman observes, 'There is a moment each day when the coyotes stop singing, the loons stop calling, the gulls stop squabbling. It is as if all earth is waiting for the first glimpse of sunlight from the eastern horizon. Dark slides into light at an almost imperceptible pace.'"" Jessica Gigot, author of A Little Bit of Land, Flood Patterns, and Feeding Hour. ""As prophetic ecotheologian Thomas Berry put it, we have broken the great conversation with nature-the conversation with rivers, mountains, clouds, birds-and in so doing we have ""shattered the universe."" In Conversations with Creation, Ted Huffman makes great strides to mend and recommence our great conversation with the more-than-human world. Through essays, spiritual memoir, poetry, and prayer, this book invites us to bring many voices and modes of speaking and understanding-to bring our whole embodied, spiritual, creative selves-to this urgent and exciting call of our times: to restore and rejoice in the Great Conversation with Creation, Creature, and Creator."" Daniel Cooperrider, author of Speak with the Earth and It Will Teach You: A Field Guide to the Bible.

Author Information

Rev. Dr. Ted Huffman grew up in south-central Montana north of Yellowstone National Park. He earned his pilot's license as a teen and gained experience as a mountain pilot over Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. He is a graduate of Rocky Mountain College and Chicago Theological Seminary. He pursued post-doctoral studies at the University of Wyoming. He has written and edited several faith formation curricula resources including The Inviting Word, Storyteller Series, Seasons of the Spirit, Affirming Faith, and Faith Practices.He and his wife Susan were ordained in a joint service in 1978 and served forty-four years together as ministers of the United Church of Christ. They are parents of two children and grandparents of five. Together they have explored the United States, Canda, Europe, Australia, Costa Rica, and Japan. He is an amateur boatbuilder having completed wooden canoes, kayaks, and a rowboat. He studied Greenland boatbuilding and constructed a skin-on-frame kayak. He enjoys walking, riding his bike, swimming and paddling near his home on the shore of the Salish Sea near the Canadian border.

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