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The Sycamore  by Wendell Berry In the place that is my own place, whose earth I am shaped in and must bear, there is an old tree grow...

Mark Mitchell writing at Front Porch Republic : We have a situation today where presidential candidates must of necessity pretend that t...

I've been fascinated by the Chinese company Foxconn since reading about the spate of worker suicides at the giant complex where the iPho...

Desiring the Kingdom  by Calvin College professor James K.A. Smith has been beckoning from my bookshelf for several months. "Jamie...

This Sunday is World Communion Sunday and like thousands of other churches around the world my church will be participating. As Presbyterian...

After describing the amazing transformation of Washington, D.C. and surrounding regions from blight to astonishing affluence (and employing ...

The dearth of original material here recently is due partly to lack of time and partly to lack of inspiration. But whenever I'm lackin...

David Brooks parses Mitt Romney's candid unscripted comments at a Boca Raton meeting with wealthy donors. In 1980, about 30 percent of A...

"Nat Hentoff is a legend" states the blurb on the back cover of The Nat Hentoff Reader (a book I picked up on a whim at our church...

In this edition of Wednesday Wendell I'm linking to a piece by Slow Church blogger John Pattison -- "False Economies and False Gods...