What Makes Us Beautiful
By Chip Prehn
I offer a beautiful thing to Covenant readers today. It is a poem by Wendell Berry.
The yellow-throated warbler, the highest remotest voice
of this place, sings in the tops of the tallest syc... Read More...
“We Don’t Need to Be There Nearly as Often”
By Mark Michael
News broke recently that the Diocese of Chicago plans to sell its 30,000-square-foot headquarters in the city’s central business district. The building has other tenants, but the diocesan dir... Read More...
Wendell Berry, Poet and Prophet
Wendell Berry, this great Bard — as great an American voice as Thoreau’s or Whitman’s — assumes that the reality before and all around us in nature is infinitely complex and therefore cannot be fully comprehended by any human intellect.
A Refreshing Agrarian Vision
The Art of Loading Brush, Wendell Berry’s most recent contribution, spans across several genres, beginning with philosophical essays, moving to fiction, and ending with a poem
Fossil fuels, the Church, and modern values
British historian Ian Morris argues that human values depend upon our methods of energy capture and storage.
Edward Abbey, righteous Gentile (A short appreciation)
Edward Abbey’s was a great soul. The best reason to read Abbey, says Wendell Berry, is “for the consolation, for the comfort of being told the truth.”
A catechism of Nature (5): Autumn
I am an avid hunter and fisherman, but it strikes me that these activities are really more occasions for something else: for looking at the natural world and trying to understand it and, by trying to understand it.
Consider your children, how they grow
What price do we really pay for our omni-technologized lives, and will our kids foot the bill?