Wendell Berry

Brett McCracken reviews Look and See, a documentary film focusing on the life and perspective of Wendell Berry.

Zen Hess wants Christians to resist individualism and transience with a rooted theology of place.

Karen Swallow Prior meditates on the slow marriage of North and South.

“The term ‘imagination’ in what I take to be its truest sense refers to a mental faculty that some people have used and thought about with the utmost seriousness. The sense of the verb “to imagine” contains the full richness of the verb ‘to see.’ To imagine is to see most clearly, familiarly, and understandingly […]

The one good thing about teaching (I’ve heard there are others–vicious rumors, I contend) is I get to introduce my students to the work of Wendell Berry. Berry is an academic, but he is also a farmer. He is a cultural critic, yet also an agriculturalist who creates rather than just deconstructs. He is neither […]

If, as the editors of The Other Journal write, “there is a growing cultural concern that we are abstracted from our food’s source and forgetful of its meaning,” then attending to our words is indispensible for diagnosing the nature of our abstraction and forgetfulness, as well as for keeping vigil against it.[1] In so attending, there […]

Dubai and Nairobi represent two ends of the poverty/wealth spectrum, but which one is really wealthy?

A conversation with Dr. Joel Shuman on the bodily enactment of the church, specifically how it deals with death and dying, in a disembodied world.

In this short essay, Chris Haw reflects on the internal and theological struggle against gadgetry and the promised hopes of iPhones.