Tag Archives: Wendell Berry

“Jesus says: ‘You have a home . . . I am your home . . . claim me as your home . . . you will find it to be the intimate place where I have found my home . … Continue reading →

Posted on February 23, 2019 by livingasapprentices | 4 Comments

From my Reading

Posted on July 18, 2018 by livingasapprentices

“In essence, shedding opens us to self-transformation. Paradox- ically, those of us who refuse such renewal will, sooner or later, be forced to undergo transformation anyway as a result of being broken or eroded by the world” (Mark Nepo, The Book … Continue reading →

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The Baffled Mind

Posted on May 14, 2017 by livingasapprentices

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not … Continue reading →

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“An Age of Divorce”

Posted on March 26, 2017 by livingasapprentices

This blog now contains more than 600 posts.  I am re-posting this blog from April 24, 2016 because the “divorce” Wendell Berry refers to is more painful than ever in 2017. ♦   ♦  ♦  ♦ “We all come from … Continue reading →

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Wendell Berry: “Do the Two Things You Can Do”

Posted on April 24, 2016 by livingasapprentices

“We all come from divorce. This is an age of divorce.  Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can’t put it all together.  What you can do, is the only thing you can do. Two things. Not … Continue reading →

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From my Reading

Posted on January 11, 2016 by livingasapprentices

“The life of faith is one of continued wrestling, where our faith butts up against the troubles of our experience and the sovereign God who controls all things.  But the work of Christ, True Israel, assures us that we never … Continue reading →

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“Stinking Thinking”

Posted on June 5, 2014 by livingasapprentices

LIVING AS APPRENTICES Here’s a conscience-pricking comment from Wendell Berry. We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on the even flimsier assumption that we … Continue reading →

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