
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
My heart never fails to leap when I hear the Word speaking through the specific local weight of the sacred, the particular tongue of this ground. Today, "Is his spring dug out enough to baptize him yet?" And then, opening a kid's coloring book, at random, in the fellowship hall.

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Page from kids coloring book showing a bear dressed as a fisherman, catching a fish, and above the fishing figure, a child's handwriting, "Dad."

Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 23 Jun 2026
@seenunseenmag @profntwright 3/ We are nature. Not "like" it. Not merely "in" it. Not a will piloting biology. We are microbiome, breath, water, hunger, grief, labour, mortality—creaturely through and through, nature become self-reflective, language-bearing, morally answerable, wounded and wondrous.
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