Tag: wendell berry
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“And for the first time I felt my nakedness.”
For several years I lived in what seems to me now to have been a very general way. My major aim was to keep writing, and I had done so by taking advantage of random opportunities, traveling here and there, living a year or two in one place and a year or two in another. And…
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“…we have only colonized more and more territory eastward of Eden.”
We can appropriate and in some fashion use godly powers, but we cannot use them safely, and we cannot control the results. That is to say that the human condition remains for us what it was for Homer and the authors of the Bible. Now that we have brought such enormous powers to our aid (we hope),…
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Bill Moyers Interviews Wendell Berry
There is so much that is good in this interview with Wendell Berry, including this: “A lot of my writing, when it hasn’t been in defense of precious things, has been a giving of thanks for precious things.” Thanks to Englewood Review of Books for pointing to this.
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The Problem of Plugging In
An article I wrote in January for my denomination’s magazine, The Covenant Companion, has been posted (as a PDF) online. In “The Problem of Plugging In” I drew from a couple of Wendell Berry’s essays to discuss the power of metaphors and the way our language hinders or aids spiritual growth. Your church has problems.…
David W. Swanson 