This episode was first published March 2, 2026.
In her book "The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary," writer Terry Tempest Williams introduces us to the Glorians. She says they are not distant deities, but the ordinary, often overlooked presences — animal, plant, memory, moment — that reveal our shared vulnerability and interconnectedness with the natural world. The Glorians can be as small as an ant ferrying a coyote willow blossom to its queen or as commonplace as the night sky.
Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of more than twenty books of creative nonfiction, including the environmental classic "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place."
Among her other books are "Leap," "Red," "The Open Space of Democracy," "Finding Beauty in a Broken World," "When Women Were Birds," "The Hour of Land," and "Erosion: Essays of Undoing."
Her work has been translated and anthologized worldwide. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters and is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School.
She divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and southeastern Utah.
