Swords and Ploughshares – Again A sermon for Wine Before Breakfast on Isaiah 2.1-5 by Amy Fisher A couple of weeks ago, a short piece ran in Macleans under the title, “Turning swords into ploughshares.”
Contempt, the Commons and Justice: Two Economies by Brian Walsh Kentucky poet, farmer, essayist, novelist and profoundly wise man, Wendell Berry once said that there were two kinds of economy: There is the kind of economy that exists to protect the “right” of profit, as does our present public economy; this sort of economy will inevitably gravitate toward the protection of the “rights” of those who profit most.
Exhaustion and the Built Environment by Andrew Stephens-Rennie A few days ago on the Slow Home blog, John Brown posted the following quotation from Dolores Hayden: It is much more common to complain about time or money than to fume about urban design.