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Hunting and the Body of Christ
As we come to the supper table to feast upon pheasant breast or the backstrap of a whitetail deer, we gain an inkling of that invitation to the true Table…
Joyless Moderns
The modern age, in almost every detail, began with the flat rejection of joy. And the modern condition consists in alternately lamenting that there is nothing in which to take…
The Business Like Concerns of Elizabeth Bishop and George Herbert
Devon, PA. In the first months of FPR's existence, I wrote a short essay on George Herbert, secularization, and devotion. I return to that subject by a different avenue in…
Mr. Herbert’s Sunday Morning Service
Devon, PA. Most people, agrarian or otherwise, do not read poetry anymore. Ours is not merely a forgetful culture, but one that has long since ceased to approve of memory…