Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson

Robert Lee Williams tells how even a little tech in prison can make a big difference.

Authors and farmers James and Helen Rebanks discuss their practice of regenerative agriculture in the Lake District, focusing on breeding healthy cattle and sheep through natural processes. They address the importance of recognizing unseen labor, exploring the roles of farmers' wives and stay-at-home moms. The conversation touches on rewilding, food origins, and the impact of book releases on amplifying ordinary voices. They emphasize the need for regenerative agriculture to restore wetlands and increase biodiversity in farmlands.

Tim Maendel describes his love of hunting and the connection it gives him to the human species' natural history.

Rhys Laverty writes about the Alderney Breakwater, a crumbling jetty in the Channel Islands that protects a way of life.

Norann Voll learned some of life’s most important lessons from her father while caring for sheep.

Peter Mommsen asks if humans should live by the laws of nature.

In an excerpt from her book, Joy Marie Clarkson explores the natural metaphors that we use. Are you a tree, she asks, or are you a potted plant?

Greta Gaffin asks if humans should return to nature, and looks to the lives of two saints who taught us to make peace with it instead.

David McBride introduces his new translation of The Leper of Abercuawg, a thousand-year-old Welsh poem in which an outcast seeks comfort in the wild.

Joy Clarkson discusses her new book, and the importance of metaphor.Why are metaphors important? How can they help us live well – and how can they go wrong? Why should we not think of ourselves as computers? And what does all this mean for our language about God?In the discussion, Joy and Susannah range widely through topics including apophatic theology, the inevitability of metaphorical language, Owen Barfield, Anthroposophy, Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, Suzanne Simard’s research on how trees communicate via fungal networks, and much more.