Tiger Trout (Salmo trutta X Salvelinus fontinalis) caught in the Uintas and then released.
Photo by Jeffrey Louden
Many years ago I read in a Salt Lake Tribune article that there are three things which move us toward conversion: love, beauty and suffering. I grew up in the West and at an early age fell in love with the land, the landscape, and then the world. Some think that part of the maturation of faith and the church is to nurture this love, to develop and deepen a theology that is centered on being here, loving this place and its peoples, its creatures, its ecosystems. We are converted by the beauty of the world, by its many landscapes, by the suffering it experiences and in which, if we are fortunate, we participate as we move toward redemption for the whole world.
"When your beloved Son came among us, the waters of the river welcomed him, the heavens opened to greet his arrival, the animals of the wilderness drew near as his companions....." Evangelical Lutheran Worship, p. 81
Jeffrey Louden
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