I am not ashamed. I recently read and listened to a talk Russell Moore presented in October 2021 at the Rabbit Room’s annual arts conference. The talk is featured on the Plough website, June 24, 2022. Dr. Moore is Public Theologian at Christianity Today and Director of Christianity Today’s Public Theology Project. Titled “Faith, Fiction, …
Tag Archives: Wendell Berry
Together
I read a Wendell Berry poem this morning, “They Sit Together on the Porch.” It reminded me of how it should be for people who have shared their lives for decades. Ten years ago when Mrs. tVM and I lived on the edge of the Saguaro National Park with little light pollution, we abandoned the …
Attitude
As all men are created equal, so too, all men are created good. The next fact to follow is that too many good people make bad decisions. It started with Adam and Eve and will continue. That is a fact. With those facts in mind, we continue to survive – possibly thrive – as the …
The Important Thing
I read my first Wendell Berry book – Nathan Coulter – in 2018. Published in 1960, it is the first of Mr. Berry’s acclaimed Port William books set in the imaginary Kentucky town he created to tell his stories. Mr. Berry was 26-years old when he wrote the book. He was 84-years old, and I …