by Jason Craig | Sep 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
I recently hosted a retreat with 30+ college students at my farm. These young men spent a week in work, prayer, and rest, with an intentional focus on building Christian brotherhood and character. Because so few had experienced work their new callouses bled and...
by Jason Craig | Sep 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Something has gone wrong with our culture, or at least it seems that way by how many people make a living criticizing it, trying to fix it, or checking out of it altogether. That last one is impossible, but it makes a good story. Just consider how many institutes,...
by Jason Craig | Sep 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
I recently had a priest friend visit my farm to help me eat a pig. He had, in fact, wanted to be there “for the bullet”, meaning when I began what is politely and (I think) cruelly called “processing”. “Processing” is thoroughly modernist farm-speak that helps...
by Jason Craig | Sep 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
In Wendell Berry’s book The Unsettling of America he has a short but powerful little commentary on The Odyssey. He’s describing the disarray of Ithaca, Odysseus’s home and kingdom. With Odysseus gone for so long, there are men eating up the stores of food, with...
by Jason Craig | Sep 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo is often called the beginning of contemporary Catholic social teaching because it was the first encyclical to deal with the unprecedented disruptions of traditional societal order due to the industrial revolution. For fathers, Rerum is one of...
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