For fans of Margaret Renkl and Lisa Wellssampamp160Believersampamp160World Without Endampamp160circles the connections between climate change and faith in the fear and fascination of the end of the world.ampamp10When Martha Parkampamp8217s father announced he was retiring from the ministry after fortytwo years she moved home to Memphis to attend his United Methodist church for his last year in the pulpit. She hoped to encounter a more certain sense of herself as secular or religious. Instead she became increasingly compelled by uncertainty itself curious about whether doubt could be a kind of faith one that more closely echoed the world itself one marked by loss beauty and constant change.ampamp10In illustrated essays World Without End Essays on Apocalypse and After explores the intersections of faith motherhood and the climate crisis across the South from manmade wetlands in Arkansas to conservation cemeteries in South Carolina from a fullscale replica of Noahampamp8217s Ark in Kentucky to the reenactment of the Scopes Monkey Trial.