POSTPONED
Nature is both a reminder of our mortality and a gift given to us by a loving Creator and Savior. In this lecture, humanities professor George Handley will explore how the experience of suffering motivates and shapes our relationship to the natural world and why the creation’s healing qualities should inspire us to take better care of all of life.
This Living Faith Lecture celebrates the publication of the Maxwell Institute’s latest book, The Hope of Nature: Our Care for God’s Creation. Released on March 10. Copies will be available for purchase at the event.
About the Speaker
George Handley is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Associate Director of the Faculty Center at BYU. He has also served as Associate Dean in the College of Humanities and as Department Chair of Comparative Arts and Letters. His research focuses on the intersection between literature, religion, and the environment and his previous books include New World Poetics, If Truth Were a Child, and the environmental memoir Home Waters. He is currently serving as a City Council Member in Provo.