Faith and Testimony
As thousands of faculty committees have found out, “teacher evaluation” is a hopeless business. There is, thank God, no teacher meter, and there never is going to be one. A teacher’s major contribution may pop…
Tag: Wendell Berry
Today’s One-Liner (#218)
Practice resurrection. –Wendell Berry, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”
Activating the Dead
When people who know one another have lived in the same landscape for a long time, they are surrounded by reminders of the dead in one another’s faces and in the landscape itself. In such…
Toward a Curriculum for an Institute for the Cultivation of Slowness
For Lindsay Morning Aspiration: Upon first waking up in the morning, recite this gatha from Thich Nhat Hanh: “Waking up this morning, I smile: Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to…