HeyJaredQuakers and the End of Scapegoating
Part exploration of Rene Girard's groundbreaking 'mimetic theory,' part Bible commentary, and part dialogue with early and contemporary Quakers
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Wendell Berry (1934-2026): The Virtue of Small Things (opens the original)
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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. –Wendell Berry[1]Word came last week that the poet, farmer, and environmentalist Wendell Berry has died, on his Kentucky farm, at age 92.At a pivotal time in my life (in my mid-twenties) I read Berry’s The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (1977; 50th Anniversary edition r
Living in "the Tragic Gap" (opens the original)
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Below is an expanded version of words I spoke as a message at our local Quaker meeting a couiple weeks ago. For those not familiar with unprogrammed Quaker meeting, messages (“vocal ministry”) arise spontaneously, in response to the movement of the Spirit and in the moment. Our meetings for worship are therefore quite unpredictable, but in general, we hear are apt to hear between four and eight messages over the course of an hour, interspersed with longer periods of silence.To set the scene: the
Lest We Forget: Thaddeus Stevens, Local Hero (opens the original)
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This week, two of our granddaughters are visiting us in Lancaster; this is a rare event because of their somewhat complicated family situation (they were last here 7 years ago, though we travel to Wisconsin to see them every few months). They are 14 and 13 years old, just back from two weeks at summer camp in western PA. In searching for things to keep them occupied amidst a brutal heat wave, we took them on Tuesday morning to Lancaster’s newest museum, the Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Smith Center
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