Homo Stulto
byThe Importance of Words There is a man at my former church whose prayers I relish. Most people pray for the church, the world,…
Commons Sense
Expunged from the Garden
byStagnancy; or, Cleaning the Closet of Christianity Perhaps you’ve noticed it in the news or in print media: Earth is changing, or maybe it’s…
The Black Snake
byThe other day, as I drove through the National Grasslands, the first image of a pristine prairie I saw was a one hundred car…
The Missouri River Dinosaur
byThe pallid sturgeon is, perhaps, the least sexy fish in existence. Prehistoric, armored, and occupying the muddy recesses of slow flowing rivers, it is…
Staring into the Fiery Furnace
byChristians like pretty much the same things best: singing, praising, communion, and complacency. In Wendell Berry’s essay “Christianity and the Survival of Creation,” Berry…