Our Real Work – Dec. 19, 2022
“When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded spring is the one that sings.” -Wendell Berry, Standing by Words: Essays […]
An Unorganized Religion – Aug. 16, 2022
“As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and […]
A Practice – Oct. 14, 2021
“A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.” —Wendell Berry, from the essay “The Idea of a Local Economy“, Orion Magazine
One Household – Apr. 23, 2021
The dark around us, come,let us meet here together,members one of another,here in our holy room,Here on our little floor,here in the daylit sky,rejoicing mind and eye,rejoining known and knower,Light, leaf, foot, hand, and wing,such order as we know,one household, high and low,and all the earth shall sing. –Wendell Berry, Sabbaths, “X”, p. 58
