Jeffrey Bilbro is an Associate Professor of English at Grove City College. He grew up in the mountainous state of Washington and earned his B.A. in Writing and Literature from George Fox University in Oregon and his Ph.D. in English from Baylor University. His books include Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of Hope, Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature, Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (written with Jack Baker), and Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry’s Sustainable Forms.
Jeffrey Bilbro
Articles by Jeffrey Bilbro
Poverty, Progressives, and Publics
In an absolute barn burner of an essay, Matthew Walther asks hard questions about our obligations to those rendered passive, distracted, and poor by our technological society.
Brigid, Ozempic, and Stehekin
“Big Ag Has Corrupted Our Food System. Here’s How We Can Rebuild.” Sara June Jo-Sæbo talks with Austin Frerick about how to fix America’s broken food economy: “The first antitrust…
Come On Up to the House: A Review of Wake Up Dead Man
The film's mystery is a satisfying one, but its pleasures are secondary to the consideration of the larger mystery of the Christian faith.
Economic Republicanism, the Second Amendment, and Isolation
Charles Carman reviews Kingsnorth’s new book, and while he finds some flaws that frustrates him, he also argues that it has warnings we should take seriously.
Memorization, Gamification, Sanctification
James Pogue, one of the best journalists writing today, profiles a Washington representative with an unconventional approach.
Dorothy Day, Tanya Berry, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Kristin M. Collier contemplates the practice of medicine predicated on a creaturely view of persons.
Plumbers, Pepsi, and the Amish
Antón Barba-Kay articulates the appeal of Curtis Yarvin and diagnoses the very-online irony that marks his rhetoric.
The State of the Porch
FPR aims to gather and encourage those who aspire to a creaturely life even in a machine age.
Lift a Glass to Mark Mitchell
Leave a comment to thank Mark. Add your good wishes to mine. He deserves them.
Attention, Housing, and Subscriptions
Ezra Klein wrestles with the limitations of liberalism in the face of big tech efforts to capture users’ attention.
From the Editor—Local Culture 7.2: Work and Leisure
Wading in a river and lumberjacking in the woods are at once work and play, play and work, and in this they resemble anything we might do for instrumental ends…
Miłosz, Butz, and Han
Eric Miller pens a beautiful review of Wendell Berry’s new novel and reflects on the stories and structures that hold sustaining cultures in place.
Russell Moore on how Wendell Berry Made the Cover of CT
The former editor in chief of Christianity Today stops by to talk about his love of Port William and the AI infused world to come.
Literacy, Roux, and Tobacco
Kit Wilson describes how the flurry of words that bombarded him via podcasts, social media, and texts cut him off from reality.
Crypto, Abundance, and Robots
Robert Wyllie writes about Kirk’s assassination and the state of hyperpolitics with the appropriate self-awareness, despair, and hope.
Bookstores, Hammers, and Soybeans
Chase Steely visits Elder’s Bookstore in Nashville and muses on the literary and cultural traditions born in that city.
McGuane, MAHA, and DoorDash
Charles McNamara wrestles with how we might regain the virtues needed for real education.
A Place to Stand: The Aims of Teaching, The Good of the Canon, and The Great Gatsby at 100
The real work of judgment makes possible stability and repair, a work worth even one’s death, or, what may prove more difficult, a lifetime of obscure fidelity.
Brad Littlejohn on Freedom and Big Tech
Brad Littlejohn’s recent book offers wise guidance for navigating our way through these times of rapid change.
Rights Without Responsibilities?
Many are quick to posit that we have a wide range of rights, yet we are almost tongue-tied about our responsibilities.
The Monster and the Mirage
Technology may assist the surgeon, illuminate the astronomer’s field, or console a mother in her sorrow. Yet it cannot give the soul the perfection it longs for.
Following Dante
At its best, Krause’s writing reminds us that poetry is not a luxury but a vital mode of human knowing, one that can re-enchant our disenchanted age and direct us…
