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Thanks to all who joined us for a wonderful gathering in Grand Rapids last weekend. On Friday evening, Jeff Polet and Ross Douthat conversed about populism, Lasch, and American presidential…

Paul Kingsnorth delivered the keynote address at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin.  With help from a diverse band of fellow travelers including Jewish-Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, Anglo-Catholic social…

Paul Kingsnorth, the keynote speaker at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin, begins things with a bonus talk on the power of prayer in a desecrated western world.    Highlights …

Paul Kingsnorth opened his Friday evening talk by remarking that he traveled 4,000 miles to talk with us about localism. The many talks and conversations that followed over the next…

We have a date, location, and keynote for our fall conference. Stay tuned for a full schedule and registration information, and make plans to join us!

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 on homemade Nashville BBQ sauce.Read…

We've got a date, location, topic, and keynote speaker for the 2020 FPR conference. Save the date--September 26--and make plans to join us. We'll update the conference page with a…

Thanks to all who came to Louisville this weekend for our annual conference. We had about 300 people join us for the day, making this the largest FPR conference yet.…

Thanks to all those who joined us for a provocative and convivial gathering this past Saturday. Even though it wasn’t live-tweeted (or perhaps because it wasn’t live-tweeted), we had a…

Here is the tentative, don't-hold-us-legally-accountable-if-it-ain't-exactly-this-way lineup of speakers for the Front Porch Republic conference on September 15 at Hope College, in Holland, Michigan. We'll let you know if there are…

The place and date of Front Porch Republic's second annual conference have been set. We'll get together on Saturday, September 15, at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. We will once…

For those of you who were not able to be in Emmitsburg on Saturday, you missed a wonderful day. The rain stopped sometime in the night and the early morning…

Dear friends of FPR, Please join us at the inaugural Front Porch Republic conference on Saturday, September 24, at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Co-sponsored by the Mount…