Wendell Berry being Wendell Berry

Here's a link to the 2012 National Endowment of the Humanities Jefferson Lecture, delivered by a man whose voice has long demanded to be heard, Wendell Berry:
http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-lecture

Top of the food chain, indeed

This from Norman Wirzba's excellent Food & Faith: A Theology of Eating:
"Though everything that lives eats, we are the ones privileged to garden, feast, and be hospitable. We are the ones who can give voice to gratitude and develop eating practices reflective of faith, hope, and love."

NT Wright on the resurrection body

"Dust we are, and to dust we shall return. But God can do new things with dust."
         ----Surprised by Hope, 158

Love that, both for its concise elegance and its commitment to the power of God.

The Psalmist at Harvest Time

This delightfully agrarian reflection from Psalm 65:

9 You visit the earth and water it;[b]
    you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
     you provide their grain,
    for so you have prepared it.
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
    settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
    and blessing its growth.
11 You crown the year with your bounty;
    your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.
12  The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
    the hills gird themselves with joy,
13  the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
    the valleys deck themselves with grain,
    they shout and sing together for joy.