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From the Moore to the Point newsletter: The Joker Is Our Spiritual Director Now

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How can Wendell Berry’s novels help us understand love of country and community without stumbling into idolatry?

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In 2021, Russell did a talk at The Rabbit Room’s virtual conference, Hutchmoot: Homebound. Given in the main room of North Wind Manor, Russell shared how Berry’s fiction can help us see something underneath our political arguments, revealing the human longing to belong somewhere.

Drawing from Jayber Crow, Hannah Coulter, and other works by Berry, Russell argues that the answer to Christian nationalism isn’t less Christianity, but Christianity that refuses to use Jesus as a means to some other end.

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From the Moore to the Point newsletter: Reflections on Wendell Berry.

Watch the episode here.Some of Russell’s Writings on Wendell Berry over the Years

"Why You Should Read Hannah Coulter"

"7 Books That Changed My Life"

"My Favorite Books of 2019"

On It All Turns on Affection

On Life Is a Miracle

"Faith, Fiction, and Christian Nationalism"

My Library of America tribute to Wendell Berry on his 90th birthday

"Good Riddance to the Robert E. Lee Statue"

"Wendell Berry’s Grief and Gratitude"

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What happens when Christians separate righteousness from justice?

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In American Christianity, questions of personal morality and public justice are often treated as though they belong in different categories. Christians may speak confidently about some moral issues while dismissing others as distractions from the gospel or as politics the church should avoid. Charlie Dates’ new book, What Hath Justice to Do with Righteousness?, challenges that distinction. Scripture, he argues, doesn’t allow Christians to choose between personal holiness and concern for the people and communities around them.

On this episode, Russell and Charlie explore what that divide has done to the American church and why, in Charlie’s words, American Christianity can become “more American than Christian.” They discuss what the prophet Amos has to say to comfortable churches, why pastors can be tempted to avoid difficult subjects, and what Christian courage looks like when speaking the truth comes with a cost.

Dates has no easy optimism about where American Christianity is headed, in fact, he says he has a “healthy cynicism". But, he does have hope that, as he says, is needed “when the evidence is against you.”

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From the Moore to the Point newsletter: Dolly Parton didn’t need you to love her (and that’s why most of us did)

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