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Agrarian Voices Lecture

FPR's own Jason Peters will be giving an Agrarian Voices Lecture later this month at the Berry Center. If you're near New Castle on Jan. 23rd, consider going in person to heckle…
Jeffrey Bilbro
Jason Peters
Jeffrey Bilbro
Jason Peters
January 13, 2025

FPR’s own Jason Peters will be giving an Agrarian Voices Lecture later this month at the Berry Center. If you’re near New Castle on Jan. 23rd, consider going in person to heckle him. If not, rumor has it there may be a video recording posted at a later date.

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Jeffrey Bilbro

Jeffrey Bilbro

Jeffrey Bilbro is a Professor of English at Grove City College. He grew up in the mountainous state of Washington and earned his B.A. in Writing and Literature from George Fox University in Oregon and his Ph.D. in English from Baylor University. His books include Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of Hope, Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature, Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (written with Jack Baker), and Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry’s Sustainable Forms.

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Jason Peters

Jason Peters

Jason Peters tends a small acreage in Ingham County, Michigan, and teaches English at Hillsdale College.

A founding member of FPR, he is the editor of both Local Culture: A Journal of the Front Porch Republic and Front Porch Republic Books.

His books include The Culinary Plagiarist: (Mis)Adventures of a Lusty, Thieving, God-Fearing Gourmand (FPR Books 2020), Wendell Berry: Life and Work (University Press of Kentucky 2007), Land! The Case for an Agrarian Economy, by John Crowe Ransom (University Press of Notre Dame, 2017), and Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto (co-edited with Mark T. Mitchell for FPR Books, 2018).