In his book on the Transfiguration, John Gatta notes that Christ showed the God is present in all creation, not in the human part of it.
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Great Trees, Apostles of the Living Light
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Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Vision
In this fine talk Andrea Sanders explores Wendell Berry’s vision of Sabbath, with slide glances at Dillard, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others.
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Berry and Milton on Love and Hate
Wendell Berry’s insight into the nature of hate recalls Satan’s soliloquy in “Paradise Lost.” It also helps explain Trumpist resentment.
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Wendell Berry’s Mad Farmer and Jesus
Early in Mark, Jesus’s family thinks he is insane–but sanity, as Wendell Berry notes in “Manifesto: Man Farmer’s Liberation Front,” is sometimes overrated.
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Imagining a New Creation
In “Green Gospel,” Gatta imagines notions of sin and salvation applied to nature.
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To Know the Dark, Go Dark
If Wendell Berry’s “To Know the Dark” is about exploring depression, then Thomas Moore in “Care of the Soul” has some interesting ideas on the subject.
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Earth Day: Enriching the Earth
Wendell Berry’s “Enriching the Earth” is a good poem with which to celebrate Earth Day.