God’s vision is to gather and reconcile all people and all of creation into a lifegiving Circle of Belonging.
All people and all living things belong by freely giving of their gifts and freely receiving of help from the gifts of others.
Agrarianism and Folk Knowledge
Environmentalism is good, but agrarianism is better because it takes into account the need to feed people and the fact that so much of the earth’s land surface is controlled by farmers.
Knowledge of nature that arises from books, laboratories, and the trending activism of the day is far surpassed by folk knowledge that is passed down for endless generations by people who survive from the land.
We embrace this kind of agrarianism witnessed to by Wendell Berry and others like him.
People, Power, Politics, and Pain
Politics is what society does to distribute personal and public power.
The worst of human pain is the pain of powerlessness—the lack of autonomy.
The mystery of the Bible is that out of pain comes new life in the form of deeper ways of understanding God and morality, and the courage to live into God’s vision of gathering.
