Summer Preacher's Post: What Matters
Summertime thinking toward Sunday, about Luke's parable of "purses that do not wear out" and "unfailing treasure."
It's Wendell Berry's birthday today, August 5, and he always rights about that kind of treasure, that kind of heaven-on-earth, sometimes in poetry, sometimes in story, and sometimes in commentary as this from New Persepctives Quarterly:
"We must support what supports local life, which means community, family, household life-the moral capital our larger institutions have to come to rest upon. If the larger institutions undermine the local life, they destroy that moral capital just exactly as the industrial economy has destroyed the natural capital of localities-soil fertility and so on. Essential wisdom accumulates in the community much as fertility builds in the soil."
