Stephen K. Hatch, M.A., is a contemplative thinker, photographer, writer, speaker and spiritual director. He has practiced a contemplative life for 45 years, combining family time with meditation, silence, solitary time spent hiking and camping in the wilds, and teaching. Stephen taught Christian Mysticism for eleven years in the Religious Studies Department at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He lives in Taos, New Mexico. He is the author of “The Contemplative John Muir,” “Rocks and Waters are Words of God,” “Wilderness Mysticism: A Contemplative Christian Tradition,” and “Expanse of God, Caress of Sophia.” He also has a podcast entitled “Nature as Beloved, Nature as Self.” He considers himself interspiritual, with roots in the Christian Contemplative tradition.