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“Educating Humans.” I’m relishing the new issue of Plough. Alex Sosler has a great essay on trade schools, Tim Maendel describes one teacher’s creative ways of teaching his students to…

Knowledge is a path to love, and so I’m bound to say that the book did change my affection for the place.

Grief is not a process to work through, a disorder to heal, a condition to treat, or an illness to cure.

Because of coffee’s popularity, coffee shops can draw people together like very few other modern institutions.

FPR's own Jason Peters will be giving an Agrarian Voices Lecture later this month at the Berry Center. If you're near New Castle on Jan. 23rd, consider going in person…

“Opportunities that were not available to some due to race, socioeconomic class, or gender became available through industrial education efforts”

“AI and All Its Splendors.” I continue my mulling on AI and its underlying temptations in this lengthy essay for Christianity Today. I aim to craft a book proposal this…

Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.

We are desperately in need of a collective vision of what it means to love our homes.

President Carter showed what was possible when people came together for a cause and acted out of decency.

That which we most value is often that which most frequently slips into dull repetition.

One might think that after forty-four years of writing these Sabbath poems, Berry would run out of things to say. But it seems that as long as the trees continue…

There’s little appetite for a response that begins with taking up our axes to clear the land for something better.

Whenever we see such an avoidance of questions like these, we are witnessing someone protecting an ideological dream world.

If classical schools insist on banning AI in all forms, their kids will be left behind.

Poetry must be experienced, and the experience of poetry is itself a means of searching, a kind of hunting, for wisdom.

We can gain something from the Ike Carters and the student DJs of our communities: a human connection, a community connection—not to mention great music.

Rituals are our allies in sorrow. They help us appreciate what brief time we had with our loved ones while acknowledging the years we will face without them.

Like Mary and all Israel waiting for the Messiah, like a mother welcoming a child, we are to “wait for it with patience.”

I believe in personal responsibility; insurance companies believe in impersonal responsibility.

I'll be taking the next couple of weeks off for the Christmas holidays. Look for these to resume in January. “Can a Phone-Free Learning Environment Work? This College President Emphatically…

And so, feeling blessed by the rich experiences of my ministry, I stand at the start of a new year in the dying days of the old one.

The writing may still be on the wall, but a different story is being written in our block.

After a life of physical and spiritual adventure, an innovative homesteading teacher and pastor turns green with gratitude.