It has happened three times. A producer from Mars Hill Audio e-mails and asks me if I want to talk with Ken Myers about the subject of my latest book. The producer schedules me at a studio in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania–a...
I was surprised last week to be informed that this coming year will be my last at Spring Arbor University. As a result of budget cuts, several faculty are being let go, including some of us with tenure. — Jeffrey...
Over at The Front Porch Republic, Jeff Bilbro interviews Brian Carroll, the American Solidarity Party‘s 2020 nominee for President of the United States. Here is a taste: JB: The American Solidarity platform includes planks that, at least in the American context,...
Recently Eric Miller was a guest on the Solidarity Hall podcast “Dorothy’s Place.” Listen here. Miller on Lasch: “You know you’re in the right space for Lasch when you don’t feel at ease but you feel alive.”...
All pro-lifers need to read John Medaille’s piece at the Front Porch Republic. Here is a taste: The most inflammatory debates about abortion concern pregnancies resulting from rape or incest or those which endanger the life of the mother. But as...
What is a Front Porcher? One way to define a Front Porcher is someone who reads (and generally likes what they read at) a website titled Front Porch Republic. Here is a description of what the website is all about:...
Over at The Front Porch Republic, Jeff Bilbro has a fascinating and brilliant review of a conference at Calvin College titled “Faith and Democracy in America: Christianity and Liberalism Rightly Understood.” Here is a taste: In early December, the Acton...
Over the last couple of years I have been a regular target of Darryl Hart, professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan. Read all his posts about my work here. So needless to say, I was surprised to see...
Some of you will recall this post from last week. Since my critical review of Matt Stewart’s piece “Stop Talking about Wendell Berry on Twitter,” several other folks have responded to it at the Front Porch Republic. So far the...
Matt Stewart, a graduate student at Syracuse University and a guy I call a friend, argues that Wendell Berry fans are betraying Berry by using social media. Stewart has published this piece at The Front Porch Republic, a website with...
Spring Arbor University English professor Jeff Bilbro is the new web editor of the “The Front Porch Republic.” I like what he’s done with the place. Good to see my buddy Eric Miller writing for FPR and I think...
Blog readers are familiar with my take on the presidential candidacy of John Kasich. I develop these ideas (and contextualize them) in my latest piece at Religion News Service. Here is a taste: (RNS) Republican Party leaders want John Kasich...
l to r: Fox, Miller, Westbrook, and Lasch-Quinn Over at his blog In Media Res, Friends University political scientist Russell Arben Fox offers a summary post of a session on Christopher Lasch and localism at a recent Front Porch Republic gathering...
For the good folks at the Front Porch Republic the answer to this question seems to be an unqualified “yes.” And anyone who reads this blog carefully knows I am sympathetic to the Front Porcher’s understanding of “place,” especially as...
