For day three of the Old Life Prayer Vigil, a few excerpts from Wendell Berry’s Jefferson Lecture, given this past Monday night in Washington, D.C. First, a cautionary word by implication to the W-Wists: In my reading of the historian John Lukacs, I have been most instructed by his understanding that there is no knowledge… Read More→
You get very confused. (Thanks to J. R. Daniel Kirk)
Caleb Stegall over at Front Porch Republic has already asked a good question about a recent evangelical statement, “Doing the Truth in Love,†that commends the pope’s recent encyclical Caritas in Vertate to the wider evangelical world. Caleb asked, “how many evangelicals does it take to comment on an encyclical?†The answer is a whole… Read More→
Here are some thoughts about why the conversation would be interesting.
When Transformation Transforms the Transformers
In arguably his most important book, The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry writes the following about the Amish (in ways that neo-Calvinists might find instructive and inspirational): First, the Amish communities are, at their center, religious. They are bound together not just by various worldly necessities, but by spiritual authority. . . Whereas most contemporary… Read More→