Author: Timothy Wilken

Wendell Berry lives and farms in Kentucky. His books include Fidelity: Five Stories, Another Turn of the Crank, and The Unsettling of America. Wendell Berry This essay owes its existence […]

Dann Joubert of South Africa writes:  If we all get to work together, love each other, stop using cars or even mass transit etc etc, how will that prevent the […]

We continue with excerpts from Elisabet Sartouris’ EarthDance. Yesterday, we were told of our Cosmic Beginnings which followed from a Twice Told Tale. Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. Shall we think of […]

A reader writes: Thanks Dr. Wilken for your Waking Up! essay. I thought you might be interested in this article that I was invited to write for the quarterly of […]

We continue with excerpts from Elisabet Sahtouris’ EarthDance. Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. The Greek myth of Gaian creation began with an image of the goddess whirling out of darkness, wrapped in […]

Stewart Brand Thanks to the wild acceleration of technological change. Digital Information is being rendered irretrievable almost as soon as it is stored. Welcome to what could be the dawn […]

Yogi Sri Aurobindo So long as war does not become psychologically impossible, it will remain or, if banished for a while, return. War itself, it is hoped, will end war; […]

If we examine the list of Nobel laureates for female names, we will find only a few. Some have wondered, “Where are the female geniuses?” One of the interesting phenomena […]

“We know how to solve our problems. We just don’t use what we know.” –Alfred Korzybski We continue this week’s series by Professor Wendell Berry.  He has farmed a hillside in […]