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More than ever, America is split between populist nationalism and left-wing internationalism, with little room in either...
09/04/2026

More than ever, America is split between populist nationalism and left-wing internationalism, with little room in either ideology for anything like Wendell Berry's vision of local patriotic devotion. Whatever we make of Berry's ruminations, with respect to this subject it is obviously the culture which has changed over the past few years, not him. (essay by Jerry Salyer)

More than ever, America is split between populist nationalism and left-wing internationalism, with little room in either ideology for anything like Wendell Berry's vision of local patriotic devotion. Whatever we make of his ruminations, with respect to this subject it is obviously the culture which....

What then are the birds of the air, the devils who come and steal the seed away from our souls? (essay by Brian Sudlow)
09/04/2026

What then are the birds of the air, the devils who come and steal the seed away from our souls? (essay by Brian Sudlow)

What then are the birds of the air, the devils who come and steal the seed away from our souls? Matthew 13: 18-23 takes us back to the parable of the sower that that we heard two Sundays ago, a story

Wendell Berry, requiescat in pace: Yes, we must fight and struggle for the ideal, but in the end the ultimate answers li...
09/03/2026

Wendell Berry, requiescat in pace: Yes, we must fight and struggle for the ideal, but in the end the ultimate answers lie in God’s atonement and love for us, and in our love and forgiveness for others who are just as implicated as we are. Wendell Berry is a bearer of that message in his books. (essay by John Byron Kuhner)

Yes, we must fight and struggle for the ideal, but in the end the ultimate answers lie in God’s atonement and love for us, and in our love and forgiveness for others who are just as implicated as we are. Wendell Berry is a bearer of that message in his books.

Turning the pages of a volume of essays by Samuel Johnson, I felt at once that I had discovered a new friend, who shared...
09/03/2026

Turning the pages of a volume of essays by Samuel Johnson, I felt at once that I had discovered a new friend, who shared with his admirer G.K. Chesterton the ability to make us see the everyday things of life with a new sense of wonder. (essay by Joseph Pearce)

Turning the pages of a volume of essays by Samuel Johnson, I felt at once that I had discovered a new friend, who shared with his admirer G.K. Chesterton the ability to make us see the everyday things of life with a new sense of wonder.

J.R.R. Tolkien died on this day in 1973: My heart breaks for Tolkien's Denethor, whose life ended unnecessarily, as bitt...
09/02/2026

J.R.R. Tolkien died on this day in 1973: My heart breaks for Tolkien's Denethor, whose life ended unnecessarily, as bitterness, anger, and hopelessness in the face of evil consumed him. Let our prayer be that, even as we observe the darkness at the doorstep of Western Civilization, we imaginative conservatives stand at our posts and look to the Heavenly Father as our protector. (essay by Nathaniel Urban)

My heart breaks for Tolkien's Denethor, whose life ended unnecessarily, as bitterness, anger, and hopelessness in the face of evil consumed him. Let our prayer be that, even as we observe the darkness at the doorstep of Western Civilization, we imaginative conservatives stand at our posts and look t...

Wendell Berry has passed away: "I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe...
09/02/2026

Wendell Berry has passed away: "I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love." (read the full text by Wendell Berry)

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed

Wendell Berry has died: The debt Wendell Berry described is owed by everyone who has inherited something – a faith, a fa...
09/01/2026

Wendell Berry has died: The debt Wendell Berry described is owed by everyone who has inherited something – a faith, a family, a school, a country – from people who are now gone and who are now responsible for handing it, intact and loved, to people yet to be born. That is the whole of the cultural cycle Berry described. (essay by Gary W. Houchens)

The debt Wendell Berry described is owed by everyone who has inherited something – a faith, a family, a school, a country – from people who are now gone and who are now responsible for handing it, intact and loved, to people yet to be born. That is the whole of the cultural cycle

Germany invaded Poland on this day in 1939: The most important element in European foreign relations throughout the 1920...
09/01/2026

Germany invaded Poland on this day in 1939: The most important element in European foreign relations throughout the 1920s and during the early 1930s was the desire at all costs to avoid another war. There was among European statesmen a widespread conviction that another war would be infinitely more destructive than the Great War had been, and any alternative seemed preferable. (essay by Mark Malvasi)

The most important element in European foreign relations throughout the 1920s and during the early 1930s was the desire at all costs to avoid another war. There was among European statesmen a widespread conviction that another war would be infinitely more destructive than the Great War had been, and...

Germany invaded Poland on this day in 1939: Most of the Inklings had already gone through one world war, and when German...
09/01/2026

Germany invaded Poland on this day in 1939: Most of the Inklings had already gone through one world war, and when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, they knew that their children—especially J.R.R. Tolkien’s sons—would have to go through a second one. It was all quite depressing. (essay by Bradley Birzer)

Most of the Inklings had already gone through one world war, and when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, they knew that their children—especially J.R.R. Tolkien’s sons—would have to go through a second one. It was all quite depressing. In September 1939, war

The cute boy with Down Syndrome was one of the last of his kind. “Momma, I don’t wanna leave you. I love you.” “Do not s...
08/31/2026

The cute boy with Down Syndrome was one of the last of his kind. “Momma, I don’t wanna leave you. I love you.” “Do not say that word. I told you never to say that word when talking to me. Bel. My name is Bel. That is what you call me. And today, you are leaving me.” (story by William Merriman)

The door slammed shut. The doors could close themselves with a button, but she slammed it shut anyway. She walked around to the driver's side of the door. The boy sat in the backseat with his seatbelt so tight that he had to squirm

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