Uncategorized 1644

Brian Volck ponders what he learned from Berry as a writer and a friend

What am I willing to lose to preserve the humanity of my neighbor?

Would you call yourself a localist?

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.” —Viktor Frankl, in Man’s Search for Meaning

FPR continues to gather wonderfully contrarian people.

I [reflected] on this fragmented nature of modern neighborhoods while attending my first ever FPR conference, held last weekend in Indianapolis.

What follows is my account of Doug’s collecting adventures, and of a life spent noticing what other people overlook.

John Byron Kuhner describes how seven years living alone brought a slow, strange healing.

If healing returns the body to itself, then Berry’s vision of public health might very well be to return the community to itself.

Consequentialism is a way to try to replace tradition all in one go, with “rational calculation.”

Mr. Eliot asks: “What life have you, if you have not life together? / There is not life that is not in community.”

Morgan's Salt Pork and Dandelion Greens: Growing up Greenwood [is] a memoir about growing up in the mid-twentieth century in the western mountains of Maine.

How did a Baptist, Kentucky farmer come to sound so much like the Magisterium of the Catholic Church?

Jeff Reimer’s account of life in Newton, KS, which I had the privilege of visiting this summer, opens with some advice about what to do if you encounter a train…

Will the new owners love that land as much as my parents? I hope so. But I know they won’t love it more.

Americans have sacrificed meaningful homes and strong communities for market pressures.

To see silence in this way requires a certain stillness in me and a trust that silence is there to be found.

The rhetorical method of the book is, above all, snark.

Joe Knight looks to an English folk hero who fought against enclosures to imagine how we might resist digital enclosures today.

We are mediated from war—largely because we are mediated from reality—now more than ever.

Wendell Berry speaks of death in ways few of us can express.

Wild yet humble, the sycomore fig is a remarkable symbol of the Christian life, beautiful in its simplicity.

Econoclast: Herman Daly and the Gospel of Growth is a short, earnest, and intense tribute to a tall, soft-spoken, and rather non-confrontational man.

Someday our children may read those shelves the way Ruth Swain read her father's—not as a catalog of books but as the story of a life, with all its detours…