That Glorious Overcoming

A sermon delivered by Keith D. Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on April 8, 2012. Easter Sunday John 20:1-18 It is a day, golden with promise for all people of faith. It’s a day we can only blink our eyes at the beauty and the majesty of it...

Christian Agrarianism and Rural Community

Essayist, poet, novelist, lay theologian and farmer are all descriptive of the life and work of Wendell Berry. For more than 40 years he has lived on and worked a small farm in Kentucky. His roots are generations deep in this place. He knows its soil, its people and...

Baptist Thinker Skeptical of Rational Mind

Wendell Berry—Kentucky farmer, poet, essayist and contrarian who’s skeptical of just about everything in corporate America—is nevertheless a man full of hope. Just don’t call him an optimist. “Optimism is a kind of program, a belief in some theory of...