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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Wendell Berry: America's Greatest Living Prophet?

http://brtom.typepad.com/wberry/ (This site is maintained by a monk.)

Wendell Berry talk introduced by Bill McKibben
Be sure to hear Wendell's "story" which begins at the 5:23 minute mark. 


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"The Christian Paradox: How A Faithful Nations Gets Jesus Wrong"
Bill McKibben
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/bill-mckibben-christian-paradox-how.html

“There is also the Territory of historical self-righteousness: if we had lived south of Ohio in 1830, we would not have owned slaves; if wehad lived on the frontier, we would have killed no Indians, violated no treaties, stolen no land.  The probability is overwhelming that if we had belonged to the generation we deplore, we too would have behaved deplorably.  The probability is overwhelming that we belong to a generation that will be found by its successors to have behaved deplorably.  Not to know that is, again, to be in error and to neglect essential work, and some of this work, as before, is work of the imagination.  How can we imagine our situation or our history if we think we are superior to it?” http://davidswanson.wordpress.com/tag/wendell-berry/

I am, maybe, the ultimate Protestant, the man at the end of the Protestant road, for as I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one.  He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temple into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here.  Well, you can read and see what you think. Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow.



Compendium Of Wendell Berry Pax Posts
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/compendium-of-wendell-berry-pax-posts.html

Wendell Berry Takes Literally John's Statement That "God Loves The World"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/wendell-berry-takes-literally-johns.html



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