Tag: Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry Opts Out of the ‘Culture of Violence’
Our Only World: Ten Essays. By Wendell Berry. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2015.
In January of 2012, Wendell Berry delivered a speech at Georgetown College that explained...
FPR at TAC
Gracy Olmstead attended the FPR conference in Louisville and gives this fine description of the conference and the localist ideals animating FPR.
Excerpt:
One elderly gentleman...
A Semester of Teaching Sustainability
The semester has come to an end here at Friends University, and students are leaving campus for their holiday break. Right now I'm grading,...
The Limits of Place
Hidden Springs, VA. Recently Ross Douthat commented on Rod Dreher’s new book in a column devoted to the rising incidence of suicide and the...
An Ancient Legacy of Form: Guardini on Mastery and Nearness
Our dwelling place is the state not of nature but of culture.
The Unmaking and Making of Community
The following is a talk given at the annual conference of The Academy of Philosophy and Letters on June 16, 2012 in Baltimore, MD.
In...