

A Theology of Birding—Ashlyn McKayla Ohm
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm Looking back now, I realize the birds were there long before I noticed them, fluttering about at the edges of my world. A couple of hardworking birdfeeders swung from the moss-furred limbs of the walnut outside our window, and I had casually noticed the birds that came. They were the usual suspects for our Arkansas neighborhood—chickadees and titmice and cardinals, the occasional scarlet splash of a woodpecker—but nothing that could steal my breath in wo














































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