Monks and nuns left us a legacy of spirituality honoring God’s creation

Christian poets, mystics, priests, and preachers encourage us to worship God by experiencing his creation

Christianity and the Scientific Revolution

The Bruderhof sought a life in harmony with God and nature

Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC / Art Resource, NY

Christians have praised the display of God’s presence in the natural world since the beginning of the church

Readers respond to Christian History

What I learned from getting back to the land about goats, strawberries, and God

How do we care for God’s creation?

Hildegard personifies the fire of God’s Spirit in this excerpt from her Book of Divine Works

A hymn of praise to God for the creatures he made

Celtic religion had an agricultural tinge.

A poem from The Temple (1633)

Christians have talked about God’s creation as an inspiration and a responsibility for 2,000 years

A poem written in 1877 and published after Hopkins’s death in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)

American Methodists worshiped in God’s creation even as they looked to the world beyond

What did the son of a pencil-maker have in common with the Transcendentalists?

Modern nature activism includes some writers and thinkers strongly influenced by Christian faith

An evangelical professor responds to Pope Francis’s call for creation care

Where can you go to learn more about the relationship between Christians and God’s creation? Here are some recommendations from CH editorial staff and this issue’s authors