Welcome to the Staff Column Section
Here we feature a selection of staff columns from past issues.
The Crisis of Education by Theodore Richards
Appears in The Wayfarer, Autumn/Winter Issue 2022 | Visit Store» Crisis of Education: Childhood in the Age of Loneliness Contemplative Column by Theodore Richards From the melting polar caps to violence in our cities to the rise of fascist governments, ours is an...
A Posthumous Conversation with Wayfarer Rachel Carson
by Iris Graville, from the Spring/Summer issue which is available now. Nearly every issue of this journal includes interviews with wayfarers, described as those whose inner compass is ever-oriented to truth, wisdom, healing, and beauty in their own wandering. These...
Inner Climate Change: Spirituality in the Age of Loneliness
By Theodore Richards, from the 2021 autumn/winter issue I’m on the bus, in a crowd but somehow feeling lonely. We are heading north, along Lakeshore Drive, past Lake Michigan, its waves shimmering in the sunlight, waterfowl dancing along its edge. No one notices....
Going Home Again | Wild Silence Travel Column
From our Autumn 2019 Edition | Visit our store to treat yourself to the full issue in either print or digital format. | Browse the Store› Going Home Again By L.M. Browning “What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in...
Belonging to the Land: A Conversation with Stephen Trimble by L.M. Browning
From our Spring 2019 Edition | Visit our store to treat yourself to the full issue in either print or digital format. | Browse the Store› The Wayfarer of our Spring 2019 Issue - All Photos courtesy of Stephen Trimble. All Rights Reserved. Stephen Trimble tells...
Spring in The Mindful Kitchen with Heidi Barr
From our Spring 2019 Edition | Visit our store to treat yourself to the full issue in either print or digital format. | Browse the Store› “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” —Rainer Maria Rilke In the northland, sometimes spring...
Birth by Theodore Richards
During the second to last week I worked in Zimbabwe the price of bread tripled overnight. There were strikes and riots in the cities. Mugabe was condemned by the West. The West was condemned by Mugabe. In the bush, the earth cracked in the dry air as the...
The New Myth by Theodore Richards
The New Myth by Theodore Richards Adapted from The Great Re-imagining: Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse "Where’s your mother?” my father asked, fumbling with his keys and, more significantly, his emotions. He couldn’t bear to go inside to look...
The Kennedy Center: A Legacy of Grassroots Compassion
The Kennedy Center A Legacy of Grassroots Compassion by L.M. Browning with Kelly Kancyr The Kennedy Center was founded in 1951. It stands as a testament to the force of a small group of dedicated citizens to impact change in our communities. The...
Light-time by Gail Collins-Ranadive
The Enviromental Column (Photo Above my Issue Feature Photographer, James Scott Smith) Binge reading back issues of The Wayfarer for this essay, I sit out on my Southern Nevada patio in light that is so vivid I can almost believe that it is just now...
Life & the Arts | A New Column by Eric D. Lehman
A New Column by Eric D. Lehman Recently, I was wandering through a vaulted museum hall, steel and concrete and glass packed with abstract sculptures that look vaguely like intestines, paintings resembling organized vomit, and lines of bored...
Contemplating Fatherhood by Theodore Richards
The Contemplative Column by Theodore Richards “Three Girls?!” I have three daughters. This is generally one of the first things I tell people about myself because it is, I have come to know, the central fact of my life. It is perhaps also true that...
The Election by Theodore Richards
Appears in The Wayfarer, Spring 2017 Issue (Vol 6. Issue 6) | Visit Store» by Theodore Richards I awake to the peaceful babbling of my one-year-old daughter. I am surprisingly well rested, considering the fact that I finished off a whole bottle of wine the night...
The Farming Revolution and The New Spirituality by Theodore Richards
The Farming Revolution & The New Spirituality by Staff Writer Theodore Richards The following article contains experts from, The Great Re-imagining: Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse available through Homebound publications. Featured in the Autumn 2016 Issue •...
In Contemplation of a Murder by Theodore Richards
Appears in the Spring 2016 Issue of The Wayfarer. Order a print or the full e-edition here» The Contemplative Column by Theodore Richards Watching/Seeing Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most...
The Fortingall Yew by Eric D. Lehman
By Staff Writer Eric D. Lehman • Feature Photographer Duncan George Appears in the Spring 2016 Issue of The Wayfarer. Order a print or the full e-edition here» After walking the walls of Stirling Castle, my wife and I drove through a rainy green country on the...
The Role of the Trickster in a Time of Change
From Rigid Religion to Fluid Interspirituality; From Industrial Capitalism to Earth Community Contemplative Column by Staff Writer Theodore Richards The following article contains experts from, The Great Re-imagining: Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse available...
Altruistic Hiking
by L.M. Browning Featuring field photos by the author. This article is featured in the Autumn 2015 issue of The Wayfarer (Vol 4 Issue 2) Visit our bookstore to purchase an e-edition or print edition. Go to the Store» May 4, 2015 | Napatree Point, Rhode...
The Return Journey | Spring 2015 Edition
Revisiting the Modern Classics with Eric D. Lehman | The Spring 2015 Edition
A Spirituality of Wildness
Contemplative Column by Staff Writer Theodore Richards, Spring 2015 Issue
Doing, Not Doing: Reflections on Conservation, Wildness, and the Dao
Re-wilding Column by Staff Writer Jason Kirkey, Spring 2015 Issue
Wild Silence: Seeking Solace in the Age of the Digital Din
Letter from the Editor by L.M. Browning, Spring 2015 Issue
The Season of Silence
Contemplative Column by Staff Writer Theodore Richards, Winter 2014 Issue
Charting the Way for Change
Letter from the Editor by L.M. Browning, Winter 2014 Issue
Nature, Spirituality and Paradox in New England Transcendentalism
Contemplative Column by Staff Writer Theodore Richards, Autumn 2014 Issue
The Pilgrimage Home: Finding the Sacred Ordinary
Letter from the Editor by L.M. Browning, Autumn 2014 Issue
Emerson: Champion of Creativity
Creativity Column by Staff Writer J.K. McDowell, Autumn 2014 Issue
Creativity
The Creativity Column By Staff Writer J. K. McDowell, Summer 2014 Issue
Cosmos, Mythos and Spirit
The Contemplative Column by Staff Writer Theodore Richards, Summer 2014 Issue
