This is based on a transcript of a talk by the award-winning novelist and Orthodox Christian Paul Kingsnorth, made at Bucknell University in Fall 2024. It addresses the relationship between Christianity and nature, and the title specifically invokes an obscured phrase in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The late Orthodox Christian bioethicist Herman Tristram Engelhardt glossed a statement by St. Basil the Great to suggest that natural law in Orthodox Christianity is the spark of God's love in the human heart. Kingsnorth’s talk was generously funded by the Open Discourse Coalition and co-sponsored by the Bucknell
Humanities Center's Environmental Humanities Group and the Bucknell Orthodox Christian Fellowship. Read More ...