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Jack R. Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro describe the Christian vision of Wendell Berry, in which Christians offer the gifts of God to broken places and people.
No matter the medium, though, his approach is unrelenting and contrarian. He famously writes books without a computer, farms his Kentucky land without a tractor, and practices his faith without spending much time in church. He is both lauded as a preacher of hope and disparaged as a prophet of doom.
Wendell Berry has achieved the rare distinction of excelling as a novelist, poet, and essayist, respected by secular critics while being open about his Christian faith. So what makes his work so unique?
His work reminds us, then, that our faith must be embodied, that it must go to work in local, loving economies that strive to honor the immeasurable gift of life. Humble, Loving Communities.
Berry explores the unexpected but profound parallels between poetry and marriage — or, more broadly, union — through the lens of form as both a hedge against and an embracing of the unknown. It is at once a celebration of the idea that life is not a straight line but a zig-zag and an insightful look at how form and structure — often ...
We of the United States of America have now grown accustomed to the killing of children. We still regard it as sensational, with a remnant revulsion; it is often a “news item.”. But sensation wears out fast. The roving eyes of the media hesitate a due moment over the current sensation and hurry on to the next.
Berry puts his faith in citizens who are committed to restoring their communities. One of the people at the sit-in was his friend Herb E. Smith, from a family of miners in Whitesburg.
Wendell Berry's condemnation of modern farming has brought him back into the public eye in recent years. He despises how big farming has become, and how technology-driven.
Wendell Berry is not Catholic, and Jayber describes himself toward the end of the book as “the ultimate Protestant.” He elaborates, “The belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one.”
You can feel him reasoning through the whole idea of faith, service to God. The conversion experience, whenever it happens, invites you to despise yourself as you were.