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Household Wisdom and More
A couple of months ago I shared the Q Ideas video presentation of Andy Crouch concerning his recent book, The Tech-Wise Family. The folks at Q Ideas recently released a “backstage” segment where Crouch got to add to his talk. … Continue reading
Wendell Berry and Why I Reread the Lord of the Rings
From Wendell Berry’s essay, “In Defense of Literacy”: . . . We must know a better language. We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the … Continue reading
Closer to the Tower
We’re just at a week until the release of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. The movie clocks in at just over an hour-and-a-half, which is a little concerning to me until I remember that The Gunslinger, the first book in … Continue reading
Are You Ready, Player One?
A couple of Decembers ago I found myself in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport without a novel to read. I left the terminal bookstore with a copy of Cline’s Ready Player One (and this after at least a year of hearing … Continue reading
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Every Day Committed
One of my favorite Wendell Berry quotes comes from his “Notes from an Absence and a Return,” which can be found in A Continuous Harmony. The short journal recounts Berry’s thoughts and experiences of returning to his Kentucky farm … Continue reading
When Life is Category over Character
Reading Wendell Berry in the 21st century is strange, mainly because much of what he wrote in the 1990s (and even the 1980s) is still relevant today. I think it’s relevant, even if only as a reminder of the way … Continue reading
Drowning in the Tides of History?
At the same time that I’ve been reading various essays by Wendell Berry, I’ve been devouring Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe. The two read together very well. Both are about citizens and communities and culture. And both were … Continue reading
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Between Parties and Politics
Lately I’ve been reading some of Wendell Berry’s older essays, most of them dating to the 1980s and 90s. The first collection that I read, Another Turn of the Crank, begins with an interesting acknowledgment, even and especially twenty years … Continue reading
Walking through The Door Before
It has inadvertently been a summer for non-fiction. Beyond some very-short stories by G. K. Chesterton, the only other fiction I’ve read has been the most recent release by N. D. Wilson: The Door Before. Here’s the books opener: Trees … Continue reading
Playing to Your Strengths (and Weaknesses)
After being supremely impressed by The Tech-Wise Family, I decided to give one of Andy Crouch’s earlier books a try. I chose Strong and Weak because it seemed simple and handy. What I found inside was some quality thinking about … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 