Isaac Wood

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Isaac Wood lives with his wife in East Tennessee, where he studied English and Religion at Milligan University. Isaac serves as an AmeriCorps service member at the McKinney Center, an arts center in Jonesborough, where he helps the town’s Story Initiative gather and share local stories. He produces the narrative series “Voices from the Archive” for the StoryTown Radio podcast. Isaac is part of the inaugural NextGen Accelerator Fellowship program for Christianity Today.

Recent Essays

Wheeler Catlett’s Love Beyond Organization in Wendell Berry’s “Fidelity”

Isaac Wood - October 17, 2024

Organized community events bring people together and are an integral part of forging strong communal bonds in a place. Like the law, they serve a purpose in a community’s ecosystem of relationships.

Lessons on Limiting Liberty from Hannah and Burley Coulter

Isaac Wood - November 22, 2023

Wendell Berry's fiction shows what relationships look like with skin on—how real relationships are enacted between people. As the characters who inhabit the fictional town Port William interact, they demonstrate how individuals can either perpetuate or obstruct meaningful relationships. The lives of two characters in particular, Hannah and Burley Coulter, have a lot to teach us about relationships and liberty. Together, Hannah and Burley demonstrate how caring for people in committed relationships requires moving beyond personal liberty for the sake of the other.