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February 2014

February 26, 2014

Slow Church: Embodying Justice, Peace and Love [Video]

A short description of Slow Church that focused on our call to embody justice, peace...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

The most important book of 2013…

In the very intentional Sabbath practices out of which these poems were born, Berry guides...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Life On the Threshold: Reading the father of the rural life movement in the heart of the modern city

I have been talking about the work of Liberty Hyde Bailey a lot recently.... ...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit

I was delighted to get a copy of poet Tania Runyan's collection Simple Weight last...

December 2012

December 22, 2012

How to Be a Poem

Today I was thinking about spiritual formation and what came to mind was a poem...

April 2012

April 29, 2012

The Taste of the Place

One of the keys to understanding Slow Church is captured in the seventeenth-century French phrase...

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Learning Contentment (from Thomas Merton and Liberty Hyde Bailey)

This is the second in my promised series of reflections on Liberty Hyde Bailey’s poetry....

March 15, 2012

Cultivating Wonder.

This is the first in my promised series of reflections on Liberty Hyde Bailey's poetry....

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Liberty Hyde Bailey Poetry Reflections

One of the great gifts of my writing retreat at the Convent in Cincinnati last...

October 2011

October 05, 2011

A Slow Church Poem: The Host

The Host A poem by William Carlos Williams According to their need, this tall Negro...