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Rainfall in Sweden
Andrew Peterson has been traveling through Europe and singing as he goes. Here’s a clip of him singing “The Rain Keeps Falling Down” live at the Gullbranna Festival in Sweden. It includes some great background vocals from his daughter and … Continue reading
The Ethic of the Age
It’s been interesting for me to bear witness to even the small changes in thinking that have happened with high school students over the last thirteen years. Every spring, I get to spend a quarter with seniors talking about issues … Continue reading
The Beginning from the End
From Bonhoeffer’s introduction to Creation and Fall/Temptation, his study of the early chapters of the book of Genesis: The Church of Christ bears witness to the end of all things. It lives from the end, it thinks from the end, … Continue reading
Deep Enough to Dream
The summer is almost over for me. I don’t make it through a summer without thinking about the music of 1997: the self-titled studio release from Caedmon’s Call, the greatest hits album of Steven Curtis Chapman (which included “Not Home … Continue reading
You Are Here (When Is That?)
The first half of Yuval Levin’s The Fractured Republic is an attempt to explain the contemporary American landscape by revisiting the major trends of the twentieth century. It’s a tall order that, from my perspective, he handles well and without … Continue reading
Nostalgia and Our Fractured Republic
If there’s a book out this summer that’s worth your time and money, it’s Yuval Levin’s The Fractured Republic. I read it a few weeks ago and have been mulling over it ever since. In the book, Levin draws a … Continue reading
What You Find When You Look
Try as we might to make it otherwise, place matters. At our best, we are people rooted in place and time in a way that makes us mindful of the good and bad of our moment. This is less and … Continue reading
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Once More with Affection
Wendell Berry’s case for affection is an interesting and potent one, especially in light of a contemporary culture that seems content on consuming itself. And because of its limited use, affection could be a term that helps reinvigorate something vital … Continue reading
Two Kinds of Knowledge
Abstraction is a powerful thing. It works in favor of whoever can wield it, really. Wendell Berry knows this, particularly when it comes to how we see the places around us (just as much as the people, really). In his … Continue reading
The Root and Fruit of Affection
Yesterday I wrote a bit about Wendell Berry’s “rescue” of imagination as preparation for understanding the importance of affection (which I will take as at least a form of what others might call love). Both terms are used by Berry … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 