Jeffrey Bilbro

Jeffrey Bilbro
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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 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.

Recent Essays

Affability, Simone Weil, and Cassiodorus

“Jason Peters Writes to Entertain his Friends and Exasperate his Enemies.” Bill Kauffman is the perfect reviewer for Jason’s new book. Read the review,...

Infected Brand Ambassadors, Corporate Clergy, and Anarchy

“How to Save British Farming (and the Countryside).” This summer I read James Rebanks’s new book English Pastoral. My short take is that it’s excellent....

Melville, G.D.P. Fetish, and Sheep Shearing

“The Things I Tell Myself When I’m Writing About Nature.” In this “not-too-serious and also quite serious list that is entirely non-prescriptive, and is...

Salmon, American Chicken, and Scrutopia

“‘The Fish Rots from the Head’: How a Salmon Crisis Stoked Russian Protests.” Anton Troianovski traces the complex politics in an eastern Russian region...

Serious Fun, Supernatural Justice, and a Wise Bald Eagle

“Reconsidering the Statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln.” Allen Guelzo reviews—and highly commends—Jon Schaff’s Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship: “The reader will come to the book’s end wishing that...

Hidden Wound, Living Bridges, and Local Food Processors

“What is Happening at Spring Arbor University?” I was informed this past week that this year will be my last at Spring Arbor University....

Tech Monopolies, Church Forests, and Publish and Perish

“Closing Time: We’re All Counting Bodies.” Clare Coffey reviews two recent books that diagnose American rot: “Who is in any serious doubt that the...

Cooperatives, Lasch’s Prescience, and Political Wisdom

I enjoyed some time off email and social media this past month, but I'm ready to resume these Water Dipper posts. I also want...

Left Conservatism, Public Lands, and Flannery O’Connor

As I try to do each year, I’ll be taking a break from the internet for a couple of weeks. FPR will continue publishing...

Free America, The Front Porch Republic, and America’s Decentralist Tradition

The contributors to Free America belonged to one another and to the vision of a humane society, one founded on distributed property. Just because this vision has been drowned out by the purveyors of the bigger-is-better and the latest-is-greatest doesn’t mean a decentralist vision is not worth defending and, even more so, practicing.

No 2020 Conference, but Maybe a Local Porch

This announcement is a disappointment, although not a surprise. FPR has a few suggestions to temper your grief: Barbecue and pull some pork, then slather...

Poetry, Localism, and Postliberal Epistemology

“Verse Lines When the Streets Are on Fire.” James Matthew Wilson offers a stirring defense of poetry in a season of chaos: “Disease, disorder,...