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Paul Kingsnorth’s Opening Prayer

Paul Kingsnorth, the keynote speaker at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin, begins things with a bonus talk on the power of prayer in a desecrated western world.    Highlights  1:15 Mark…
John Murdock
John Murdock
November 13, 2023

Paul Kingsnorth, the keynote speaker at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin, begins things with a bonus talk on the power of prayer in a desecrated western world.   

Highlights 

1:15 Mark Mitchell’s welcome 

4:00 Paul flies in 

5:30 A long list of labels 

7:30 Roots and power 

8:15 My neighbor Vinny (and his dying cousins) 

12:30 Centering work 

14:00 Citizen culture 

19:00 Two trinities 

23:00 Our like will not be here again 

24:30 Candles to blow 

37:30 The still point in the turning world 

30:00 An Orthodox Texan’s sermon 

32:45 Closing hymn  

Resources 

Paul’s Substack and an interview at FPR 

“The Cross and the Machine” 

Conference videos 

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home 

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John Murdock

John Murdock

John Murdock is an attorney and globetrotting localist who worked for over a decade in Washington, D.C.; left the Capital Beltway to write from a family farmhouse deep in the heart of the Lone Star state; taught law in South Korea; and then rode the housing waves of Boise. In 2023, John left the crisp dry air of Idaho and returned to the stifling humidity of his native east Texas. His writing is catalogued at johnmurdock.org.