Please join the Leopold Writing Program for our 13th Annual Aldo & Estella Leopold Residency Lecture.

Rachel Wheeler - “Traces in the Sand: Wisdom from the Christian Desert Tradition for a Time of Collapse”

The earliest desert Christians lived in third and fourth century Egypt, fleeing civilizational turmoil to live close to the land where they could deeply experience their truest selves and God. In this talk, Rachel Wheeler introduces us to the wisdom of this tradition for a time of civilizational turmoil and transition requiring that we, too, recognize our truest selves and the source of the sacred.