BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 183: Tony Jones, The Reverend Hunter

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Tony Jones, host of the Reverend Hunter podcast, and author of The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors and eleven other books, outdoor writer, hunting mentor, guide in the Boundary Waters, father of three, hunter, fisherman, seeker.

When Tony Jones was growing up, all he ever wanted was to know and preach the Gospel, and to one day have his own church and congregation. He accomplished that goal, beyond his wildest dreams. He was a star in the pulpit, and as a scholar, with degrees from Dartmouth, from Fuller Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Princeton’s Theological Seminary. He wrote influential books (including The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life) and lived an orderly life of service, study, scholarship and meditation, in a quiet home with his wife and children. But life is not orderly. As Tony writes in his blistering and thought-provoking journey The God of Wild Places, we are nature, and nature is unruly, unpredictable and beautiful in its ruthlessness. Join us, for an interview and a conversation about losing faith, and finding it again, in the whirlwind of the natural world.

More about Tony: https://reverendhunter.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0	One of the things that's been hard for me is moving from my academic theology world
0:09.7	into the outdoors world. Because you got like Annie Dillard you got Jim
0:13.4	Harrison you got John Muir you got Aldo Leopold you've got Emmanuel Kant
0:17.6	Kant the great philosophers we talk about stoicism.
0:23.3	Walt Whitman Emerson.
0:26.4	I mean, so I was using your book,
0:29.7	which I would recommend to anybody with interest in this as a springboard into greater explorations.
0:35.6	I just became more conscious. I just became more aware. I became, you can call it being mindful or being present. So I, when I then went outside to hunt or when I'm paddling in the boundary waters, I'm just much more deliberate about being conscious of where I am.
0:57.0	Who's around who by who I mean all of creation that's around me, you know
1:06.4	Hey, everybody all of creation that's around me, you know. Hey everybody, Hell Hearing, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers,
1:07.6	Podcasts and Blast.
1:09.4	Hey, I'm fired up this morning to announce that Savage Arms is going to be sponsoring this
1:15.2	podcast and it has a special significance to me because I'm sitting here holding Savage Arms, Stevens Model 9, Theories M, 20-Gage single barrel shotgun that I got for my ninth birthday.
1:32.0	I have had that. shotgun that I got for my ninth birthday.
1:33.0	I have had that since 1973.
1:37.0	It is polished off.
1:39.0	It's silvered up.
1:40.0	It's scratched and I passed it on to my son when he was in I think that would have been in 2010 and all I've done in all those years is to change the
1:51.6	replace the ejector. That shotgun has shot
1:57.4	thousands upon thousands of rounds. So this whole thing is very important to me.
2:05.0	When people have come to me who are new hunters
2:11.0	and they're asking me about a deer or elk rifle.
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