I can’t believe that it’s taken me as long as I have to read Wendell Berry. So that any Berry-deprived readers of this blog can join me in being provoked to good works, here is another passage from Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community:
If the word community is to mean or amount to anything, it must refer […]
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After some good discussion on Cities, Neighborhoods and Fear, I was drawn right into Eula Biss’ wide-ranging reflection on living in a “bad” neighborhood in greater Chicago, called No-Man’s Land. (HT: Revealer) Touching on topics from Little House on the Prairie to gentrification, Biss provides a meditation on fear and American culture that is well […]
Here’s a quote from Harry Lee Poe’s Christianity in the Academy:
The philosophy of postmodernism is not simply a philosophical issue. It is also a sociological and a psychological issue, and it has implications for anthropology, economics, marketing, language study, political science, and education. The rejection of ideology and authority is not a characteristic of a culture […]
