A Bigger Pond
We need to reject the myth of Progress that discourages us from ever being settled and content.
I Hear Kentucky Singing
Whatever our color or life or place of origin, we can all sing of our longing for home, our love of the natural world, our delight in children, and our loss.
Mr. Munson’s Mustang: A Fable
"In order to implement vital system updates, you must install the Trans-Mog-Z Facilitator, available at any Big Horizon Automotive Intervention Center. This has been your first notice.”
Home, Revisited
The pandemic has provided an opportunity to recenter our lives around home and family
The Promise and Forgiveness of Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy is indeed political, but in a deeper sense, entangled as it is in the webs of broken promises and repeated forgiveness.
The End of Childhood Play
Too many children grow up learning no lessons, organising no peers, and exploring no territory, unless it be shifting electrons around a screen, and the screen becomes their world.
Ministry in a Place of Poverty
There is nothing morally wrong with being poor, and the stigmatization that affects the poor probably only adds more to their burden.
Human Interaction: The Most Essential Business
Scotsdale, AZ. With a vaccine on the horizon, it is time to think hard about how our country should look when the pandemic ends....
Ravining
I have spent considerable time in ravines, drawn to them by an appetite for domestic exploration: though they worry me, I have also been drawn to them; I traverse the ravines to find the spirit of my place.
Some Possibly Helpful Thoughts on Localism, Populism, and Proximity During a...
The departure of Donald Trump from the White House will assuredly not mean the departure of Trumpism from American life. The collection of...