I can’t say that I am envious of my two-and-a-half year old son, but I desire to have the faith and love that he exudes each day. Fulton is blessed with Down syndrome, which I’ve come to realize means that he’s got an extra chromosome crammed with genuine love and a basic wisdom about life that most of us either lose or have difficulty attain...

Mr. Brian Jones   At a recent conference in Oklahoma, a lovely woman asked me that question which I had been anticipating weeks prior. Whenever one gives a talk on Wendell Berry, the critic-essayist-poet-farmer living in Port Royal, Kentucky, the inevitable question is always lurking in the backdrop. This is especially the case if the ta...