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Time Keeps on Slippin’

God invites us to experience life in a timeless eternity. Real life.

Story of the Seasons: The Countryman’s Notebooks of Adrian Bell

Like the wonderful American writer Wendell Berry, Adrian Bell’s desire for a return to a more sympathetic agriculture is not born out of nostalgia

Regenerative Agriculture and the Human Good with Ashley Fitzgerald

Cities always import more resources than they can produce. That's kind of the definition of a city.

Catchin’ Sheeps-The Value of Hard Work

I know it… But we do need a barn.
February 24, 2025

Let us Converse Together (Without Our Phones)

Bilbro’s book is a careful study through profound literary texts about how we live in a world that has no patience for careful study through profound literary texts.

Against Spreadsheet Brain and For Taking Action with Ashley Fitzgerald

There’s a type of guy, sometimes they're Silicon Valley guys, sometimes they're just tech bros, sometimes they're environmentalists who have lost their minds

Learn This Lesson from the Fig Tree

He seems pleased that he’s protected me and mine. Or maybe ours.
February 17, 2025

The Anti-Anxious Generation with Ashley Fitzgerald

So I'm wondering where the spirit of the American pioneer, where the culture of the can-do man has gone?

Lament for a Post-National Canada

"Canada has become a country much practiced at outrage."
January 24, 2025

Marking the Year on Two Calendars: An Interview with Matthew Miller

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

Facing a New Year of Grief

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

The Hope of the American Republic: Local Coffee Shops

Because of coffee’s popularity, coffee shops can draw people together like very few other modern institutions.
January 15, 2025

A Larger Category Than Political Allegiance

Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.
January 10, 2025

There’s No Place Like Home

We are desperately in need of a collective vision of what it means to love our homes.
January 8, 2025

An Ordinary Citizen Honors A Man of Extraordinary Decency

President Carter showed what was possible when people came together for a cause and acted out of decency.
Alice Evans
January 7, 2025

“The Sensation of Seeing”: How T.S. Eliot Defamiliarizes the Christmas Story

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

The American Food System’s Very Bad Legacy

There’s little appetite for a response that begins with taking up our axes to clear the land for something better.
Garth Brown
January 1, 2025

Forbidden Questions

Whenever we see such an avoidance of questions like these, we are witnessing someone protecting an ideological dream world.
December 31, 2024

A Modest Proposal: Classical Schools Should Embrace AI

If classical schools insist on banning AI in all forms, their kids will be left behind.
December 30, 2024

Where Can Wisdom Be Found? -Gambling Pigeons, the Quest for Wisdom, and the Irreducibility of Poetry

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

Why We Need Christmas Trees

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.

Welcoming a Baby in Advent

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

The Writing on the Wall

The writing may still be on the wall, but a different story is being written in our block.
December 18, 2024

Tri Robinson Looks Back in Thanks  

After a life of physical and spiritual adventure, an innovative homesteading teacher and pastor turns green with gratitude.
John Murdock
December 17, 2024