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Sometimes, God does not simply give or withhold. Sometimes He rearranges who belongs where.

What if our galactic neighbors have never come for a visit because they simply feel quite at home in their little corner of the universe?

Hardship fades from memory with each generation. Those who lived it remember the weight of it. Those who didn’t often forget.

From the beginning of its own story, the landscape called Yellowstone has been a place.

To state the obvious, college football is no longer “so college.”

This is not an attempt to paganize the faith, but to re-situate it. “Inhabit the Time and Genesis of your Original Home,” he urges.

Clavier introduces a colorful cast of characters in the first few chapters of the novel. Luckily, we’re given a character index at the beginning of the book, so if you…

We must begin to see and name how deeply the modern higher education industry subverts the very nature of embodied, placed, limited humans.

A box by a door. A hand that picks up. A name that calls an object to account.

I stood amongst bones bleached dry and white.

Wendell Berry has written a ninth Port William novel, and it is unlike any other in the set.

Belonging cannot be immediately grasped, but it must be chosen little by little.

In focusing on the global economy, universities often lose sight of the needs of local economies.

Not too long ago, the internet was a place you visited. The family desktop sat in its designated closet or back office. In schools, there were rooms filled with computers…

When the wood deepened, the clean wearing of the earth itself wore away into indistinguishable concord.

In the ultimate form of mimesis, the well-seasoned mower who comes to know every inch of the property he maintains, also comes, in the end, to know the contours and…

Building community doesn’t map well into the high value we place on choice at the individual level.

"I don't particularly call myself an environmentalist. I love the Pinchot National Forest. My specific woods, the land that my family is from..."

When people are trying this hard and still end up sleeping with their children on the floor of a storage room, something has gone seriously wrong with our society.

A team is from somewhere. Owners sell, players leave, but the place and the fans make up the fabric of the team.

The rift isn’t just about politics. It’s about pace, and place, and respect.

I’ve heated with wood for a winter, and I am pleased to do so, but it’s backbreaking labor to warm this way for a lifetime

Whether the remains of St. James lie there or not, most of our band will likely return again to travel a new way to Santiago.

However, the widespread association of these events with the closing of the Hotel Harrington has overshadowed the preceding history of the hotel