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Just a reminder that we have a weekly email that highlights what's happening on the Porch. You can sign up here: buttondown.email/FrontPorchR…
Nadya Williams reflects on the 2026 Front Porch Republic conference this past weekend in Indianapolis where she reflected on "this fragmented nature of modern neighborhoods." She helps us consider how to love our neighbors more.
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Read Alex Littlefield's new article, "A Practice of Collecting," which follows an account of Doug Bandow's "collecting adventures, and of a life spent noticing what other people overlook."
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Headed to @FrontPorchRepub conf. in Indianapolis today? Keep an eye out for our executive director, Josh Bowman, and several other Ciceronians (including the opening speaker). The Ciceronian Society is proud to sponsor this event!
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On our way cruisin’ to the @FrontPorchRepub conference! See y’all soon!
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Nice opening from @jeff_bilbro at the @FrontPorchRepub 2026 annual conference.
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@alancornett getting a shoutout by Patrick Deneen about his most recent article on Berry
In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about Wildcat Mountain, microdramas, and literacy. frontporchrepublic.com/2026/…
Johnson and Tillman reflect on Berry's convicting message of wholeness in the face of the health industry: "If healing returns the body to itself, then Berry’s vision of public health might very well be to return the community to itself."
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Callahan juxtaposes consequentialism and tradition, offering new insight.: "Consequentialism is a way to try to replace tradition all in one go, with “rational calculation.”
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New piece on Christianity (Catholicism), Wendell Berry, and conservation from one of my sons at @FrontPorchRepub frontporchrepublic.com/2026/…
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I'm looking forward to a rich weekend at the Front Porch Republic conference in Indianapolis this weekend. There will be good conversations and good food: frontporchrepublic.com/confe…
"Mr. Eliot asks, 'What life have you, if you have not life together? / There is not life that is not in community.'" Rebekah Potts faces the realities of building and rebuilding community, drawing on a lifetime of experience.
Read her article here! frontporchrepublic.com/2026/…
In a review of Sandra Martin Morgan's Salt Pork and Dandelion Greens: Growing Up Greenwood, S. Dorman exhorts readers to be invested in their own local history.
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"How did a Baptist, Kentucky farmer come to sound so much like the Magisterium of the Catholic Church?" Ben Sisson draws Wendell Berry and leaders of the Catholic church into conversation on the principles of environmentalism.
Read the article here! frontporchrepublic.com/2026/…
In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about anger, isolation, and McCarthy. frontporchrepublic.com/2026/…
Jessica Burke reflects on the land where she grew up, which her parents will soon need to sell: "Will the new owners love that land as much as my parents? I hope so. But I know they won’t love it more." frontporchrepublic.com/2026/…
Morgan Miller reveals government inaction in Appalachia: "Two very different crises reveal the same failure: authorities had the power to act but failed those they were meant to protect."
Read the article here: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/…
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Looking forward to the @FrontPorchRepub conference! frontporchrepublic.com/confe…