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wendell for wednesday
Even worse, a system of specialization requires the abdication to specialists of various competences and responsibilities that were once personal and universal. Thus, the average—one is tempted to say, the…
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wendell for wednesday
More from the terrific Moyers’ interview: “The idea that you have to go somewhere else, that you have to leave a fertile country in order to make a living is…
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wendell for wednesday
“It’s an article of my faith and belief that all creatures live by breathing God’s breath and participating in His spirit and this means that the whole thing’s holy. The…
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wendell for wednesday
I apologize for my absence here – it has been a crazy and exciting few weeks. Last week, our creation care ministry was approved as a Partner of Grace Church,…
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wendell for wednesday
“That we live now in an economy that is not sustainable is not the fault only of a few mongers of power. We are all implicated. We all, in the…
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wendell for wednesday
“All of us who are living owe our lives directly to our connection with the land. I am not talking about the connection that is implied by such a term…
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wendell for wednesday
From Wendell’s essay, “The Work of Local Culture,” In the woods, the bucket is no metaphor; it simply reveals what is always happening in the woods, if the woods is…
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wendell for wednesday
I’m sure I’ve already used this one before, but it’s one of my favorites (and I’m having trouble keeping track of what I’ve used and what I haven’t!). We’re members…
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wendell for wednesday
From a Sabbath poem: Because we have not made our lives to fit our places, the forests are ruined, the fields eroded, the streams polluted, the mountains overturned. Wendell Berry
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wendell for wednesday
In the June 2013 issue of The Progressive magazine, The solution, many times more complex and difficult, would be to go beyond our ideas, obviously insane, of war as the way…