Tag: wendell berry
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the slip by wendell berry
Last month I spent some time compiling Advent readings and prayers. Each week during Advent we’ve posted a new set of these prayers and readings on the New Community website. This week’s reading is a Wendell Berry poem, The Slip. The river takes the land, and leaves nothing. Where the great slip gave way in…
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wendell berry on gulf war 1
Wendell Berry, writing in 1991 about the Gulf War in Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community: For our leaders and much of our public, the appalling statistics of death and suffering in Iraq merely prove the efficiency of our military technology. Ignoring the Gospel’s command to be merciful, forgiving, loving, and peaceable, our leaders have prayed…
David W. Swanson 