Whether the experience goes beautifully or our best-laid plans go awry, hand cranking ice cream with a few dozen kids is a whole lot more powerful than dithering in paralyzing despair. As always, and as we so often forget, the light wins out.| Front Porch Republic
Amber Lapp goes to Oliver Anthony’s Rural Revival and explores the conditions for genuine, constructive populism.| Front Porch Republic
Kudos to Ari Aster and his film "Eddington" for showing us the truth of what is happening to us in our social media saturated world.| Front Porch Republic
In focusing on the global economy, universities often lose sight of the needs of local economies.| Front Porch Republic
On Politics, Spirituality, Walt Whitman, and the Healing of the United States| Front Porch Republic
Building community doesn’t map well into the high value we place on choice at the individual level.| Front Porch Republic
Although my vision, and my neck, and my sense of balance, and certainly my sense of hope, were all impaired, I could still prune. And as I pruned, I reflected on the three trees that once grew near my childhood home ...| Front Porch Republic
Blood and violence and death are on every page; however, trace that which has fallen back to its original height, especially the moment in the barn where all the rough characters are aglow.| Front Porch Republic
