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wendell for wednesday
Wendell Berry’s National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson lecture was Monday evening. Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing. According to a tweet from Gregory Wolfe of the…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Here is Jayber Crow (one of my favorite characters and novels) on the church… My vision of the gathered church that had come to me… had been replaced by a…
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Wendell for Wednesday
So I guess Mr. Berry spoke at a book club at some town along the Ohio last week. First, I’m intrigued by a small town that holds an annual book…
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Wendell for Wednesday
There were so many great nuggets in the Dissent Magazine interview that I just had to include another one: To live and work attentively in a diverse landscape such as…
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Wendell for Wednesday
The excerpt below is from a recent interview with Mr. Berry from Dissent Magazine. I, of course, recommend you read the whole thing: One crucial thing to consider is what…
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Wendell for Wednesday
If we will have the wisdom to survive, To stand like slow-growing trees On a ruined place, renewing, enriching it, If we will make our seasons welcome here, Asking not…
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Wendell for Wednesday
A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat…
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Wendell for Wednesday
LOOK IT OVER I leave behind even my walking stick. My knife is in my pocket, but that I have forgot. I bring no car, no cell phone, no computer,…
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Wendell for Wednesday
We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the…
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Wendell for Wednesday
From Wendell Berry’s “Sabbath Poems, 2007, VI:” Because we have not made our lives to fit Our places, the forests are ruined, the fields eroded, The streams polluted, the mountains…