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wendell for wednesday
“An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle,…
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wendell for wednesday
Goods It’s the immemorial feelings I like the best: hunger, thirst, their satisfaction; work-weariness, earned rest; the falling again from loneliness to love; the green growth the mind takes from…
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wendell for wednesday
From “The Idea of a Local Economy,” …the first thought may be a recognition of one’s ignorance and vulnerability as a consumer in the total economy. As such a consumer,…
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wendell for wednesday
If you’re participating in Grace’s Hunger Challenge this week, you’re probably thinking about food and hunger a little more frequently and differently than you usually might. Wendell extols us (sub)urban…
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wendell for wednesday
Someday, I’m going to go to the Land Institute’s Prairie Festival. I tried to talk Grant into it this year, but two kids and a new job got in the…
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wendell for wednesday
The Real Work Wendell Berry It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer…
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wendell for wednesday
Some (as usual) provocative thoughts from Mr. Berry, especially in the heat of the presidential election cycle: If the Golden Rule were generally observed among us, the economy would not…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Among the commonplaces of the Bible, for example, are the admonitions that the world was made and approved by God, that it belongs to Him, and that its good things…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Among the commonplaces of the Bible, for example, are the admonitions that the world was made and approved by God, that it belongs to Him, and that its good things…
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wendell for wednesday
I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres,…