The Thing with Feathers: birds and hope with Courtney Ellis

Courtney Ellis

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130: The Poetry of Open Spaces

8/31/2026 • 54 min

I first met Seth Wieck in person at the 2024 Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin University. We had a thirty second encounter where he held a door for me in his red raincoat (Michigan in April can be a little fickle when it comes to the weather) and we exchanged a greeting. That was it. The Festival is one of those places where the sheer volume of interestin… Play episode

129: Awakening Delight
128: Spiritual Practices for the Weary
127: Birds of America
126: America’s First Bird Guy
125: Being Good Neighbors
124: Loving like a Mother
123: The Joy of Living Within Limits
122: Ryan Hamm on Open Doors and Fearing Birds, Live from Lakeside Chautau…
120: Blessing One Another
119: The Blackbird Ballad (poet Liv Ross)
118: The State of Ecology
117: Birding as a Spiritual Practice (Ragan Sutterfield)
116: Feasting on Hope with Hannah Miller King
115: Weathering Change Hits the Shelves
114: Badgerland Birding with Derek Sallmann
113: The Gentleness of Birds (Jennifer Grant)
112: Dorothy, Jack, and Cardinals (Gina Dalfonzo)
111: Accessibility in Birding
110: Bird Talk with Becca Rowland
109: The Locust Years (Paul J. Pastor)
108: Wild Faith for Kids (Valerie Ellis)
107: For the Love of Women (Dorothy Greco)
106: Robert Francis, Bird Historian
105: You Have a Calling with Karen Swallow Prior
104: Households of Faith
103: Owl’s Nest Publishers
102: Birding for Better Health
101: Birding with Kids
100: Our One Hundredth Episode!
99: Undaunted Joy with Shemaiah Gonzalez
98: Hope Within Crisis
97: The Hope of Conservation (Wayne Klockner)
96: Refugia Faith with Deb Rienstra
95: Unpacking Church Camp
94: The Whole Easter Story (Jo Swinney)
93: Looking Up's Audiobook Launch!
92: The Breeding Birds of Minnesota
91: Creation and Conservation with Peter Harris
90: Seeing God after Losing Faith (Liz Charlotte Grant)
89: Hope in Chronic Illness (Duane Bidwell)
88: Winter Birding with Janet Hill
87: Simon Stuart on Conservation and Hope
86: Roger Hutchison on New Year's Resolutions... for Birds
85: A Closer Look with Susanne Swing Thompson
84: Ornithography with Jessica Roux
83: British Birding with Mark Winter
82: A Bird Diva?
81: Creation Care with Ben Lowe
80: Will Wilson Captures the Birds of Rwanda

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