In a 1986 essay by Eugene Peterson, he describes Annie Dillard as a woman who “prays with her eyes open.”

Peterson says that Dillard’s task was to exegete creation “in the same way John Calvin was an exegete of Holy Scripture. The passion and intelligence Calvin brought to Moses, Isaiah and Paul, she brings to muskrats, rotifers and mockingbirds.” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/004057368604300204?campaign_id=230&emc=edit_thw_20230416&icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.2&instance_id=90260&nl=tish-harrison-warren&regi_id=65067095&segment_id=130585&te=1&user_id=f072b8cd33fd7a4bada76d1ea460dee7