#103- Filial Piety in Wendell Berry's “Pray Without Ceasing”
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Wendell Berry's Spirituality
My grandmother said the mercy of it was Martha Elizabeth who went to stay with her dad without talking. If God loves the ones we can't, she said, then finally maybe we can. I'm really interested in that because having been from little towns in the south and hung around with those people, that's a Berry and Zien kind of religion is not there. That's not what it is typically. No. Man, in Berry's stories is noble and redeemable and flawed and all of those things all at once. Even Thad in his fury is noble and redeemedability and awful in it all atonce. Well, should we wrap up this? Yeah. It would have been
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