I have a new piece in The Daily Beast travel section—which also features my photography—on experiencing the national parks as a gallery crawl, where each park expresses the characteristics of its natural artists. I frequently am asked how a non-religious person can experience beauty in nature if God is not at the center of that experience. That experience is no less awe-filled, subject to the same things that art evokes in a person.

“By contrast, Yellowstone National Park was home to the greatest diversity of exhibits, a jarring mix of arresting pastoral scenes and violence. In many ways, it is reminiscent of an Hieronymus Bosch diptych—in which one panel shows paradise and the other eternal judgement….” Read the entire piece at The Daily Beast.