by Brian Walsh
So what do you get when 130 people converge on Russet House Farm for a Practicing Resurrection conference? A lot of good conversations, shared meals, wet sleeping bags, rich worship, great workshops and a couple of fantastic teachers in Ched Myers and Elaine Enns. You can get a taste for the conference from Jen Galicinski’s YouTube piece.
Wanting to remind us of the imaginative source of our conference title, I opened our time together by reading Wendell Berry’s poem “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” and then proceeded to offer my own prose/poem.
“Practice resurrection”
Those two words,
…the rallying cry of the Mad Farmer Liberation Front,
… the summation of the Manifesto,
those two words,
…the heart of Christian discipleship,
…the invitation and call of this weekend conference,
two subversive words spoken in the face of a culture of death.
