Join us in Draesel Hall or online at https://zoom.us/j/8753617165 (for the password, type the numerals for eighteen ninety-nine, two thousand nineteen. No comma or space.)

On six Sunday mornings, we’ll discuss Watch and Wonder: Birding as Spiritual Practice. You can purchase the book here, or in the back of the church. On May 24, we’ll conclude our discussion with Chapters 11 and 12.

Naturalist, birder, and Episcopal priest Ragan Sutterfield delves into how birdwatching shapes our souls, from having his vision opened by a rare flycatcher, to learning the power of naming while watching shorebirds, to forging friendships on a Christmas Bird Count. He writes of turning yards into refuges for birds on their long migration. Even as we reckon with the inconsolable grief of habitat loss and species decline, he writes, birds can give us hope amid the desolation.