Eden Revisited

Join us on this Thanksgiving episode as we dive into gratitude, especially in regards to food. Tyler attempts to read some poetry and Nick grades him harshly. We use the wise words of American poet and agricultural/environmental activist, Wendell Berry, to frame our minds and hearts around what it means to enter into deeper gratitude about the food we consume. See below for the text of these poems and the excerpt from his book of essays, Bringing it to the Table.
Also check out the song (to be performed someday by Morgan!) "Waltzing Matilda" and one of Nick's favorite children's story, Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder. And because I shouted them out in the show, happy Thanksgiving to Storey Family Farm and to any of our South Bend listeners.
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The Wish to be Generous

ALL that I serve will die, all my delights,
the flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field,
the silent lilies standing in the woods,
the woods, the hill, the whole earth, all
will burn in man’s evil, or dwindle
in its own age. Let the world bring on me
the sleep of darkness without stars, so I may know
my little light taken from me into the seed
of the beginning and the end, so I may bow
to mystery, and take my stand on the earth
like a tree in a field, passing without haste
or regret toward what will be, my life
a patient willing descent into the grass.

Wendell Berry
A Prayer After Eating
I have taken in the light
that quickened eye and leaf
May my brain be bright with praise
of what I eat, in the brief blaze
of motion and of thought.
May I be worthy of my meat.
- Wendell Berry

WCC: "Located in the foothills of Wyoming’s spectacular Wind River Range, Wyoming Catholic College—an accredited, four-year, Great Books institution—is built on the ancient Western tradition of the liberal arts and the freedom of the American West. The college offers its students an immersion in the primary sources of the classical tradition, the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, and the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church."
Austin had the special opportunity to sit down with WCC president and discuss how the tripartite themes of Catholicity, classical training, and wilderness exploration play out on the day-to-day. From a 21 day backpacking retreat to a no cell phone policy join us as we discuss the way WCC is doing education.
LINKS
Dr Arbery's book, Boundaries of Eden
WCC website
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Join Austin and Tyler on the path as they discuss roads. The distinction is not the obvious one. The inspiration for this episode was an essay written by Wendell Berry, Native Hill, where he says our inability to be stewards of the earth stems directly from the structures we have adopted. There is a fundamentally different attitude towards our natural environment when we take a road, versus a path. Join us as we not only critique the culture, but try to imagine what the different way forward could look like. See you on the path!
From Wendell Berry:
“The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destruction. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around. A road, on the other hand, even the most primitive road, embodies a resistance against the landscape. Its reason is not simply the necessity for movement, but haste. Its wish is to avoid contact with the landscape; it seeks so far as possible to go over the country, rather than through it; its aspiration, as we see clearly in the example of our modern freeways is to be a bridge; its tendency is to translate place into space in order to traverse it with the least effort. It is destructive, seeking to remove or destroy all obstacles in its way.” (62)"

This episode is a rebroadcast from February 2021. Since then, Dr. Larry Chapp has appeared on the "Bishop Barron Presents" series, where he and Bishop Barron discussed the Catholic Worker Movement, Traditionalism and liberalism in the Catholic Church, the Second Vatican Council, and other topics. You can watch his interview with Bishop Barron here.
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Join Nick and Austin as they sit down with Dr. Larry Chapp to discuss his transition from academia to life on a Catholic Worker Farm. He explores the theology of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, as well as their ideas on personalism, distributism, and what it means to live a "radical" Christian life. We also get some practical tips on why sheep are better than goats and how one can responsibly plan to start their own farm.
Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology and taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. He now operates the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm in Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania with his wife, Carmina. He also runs the popular blog Gaudium et Spes 22.
Have a question, topic idea, gardening tip, anything? Email us at [email protected]. We'd love to give you a sprout out!
LINKS

• The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day (spiritual autobiography)
• Catholic Worker Movement
• The Hound of Distributism (primer on the economic philosophy)
• Peter Maurin's Easy Essays

Peter Maurin was the peasant-philosopher who inspired Dorothy Day and co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement. He distilled his vision for a Christian social order into a series of short writings known as Easy Essays. On today's podcast, the boys digest an Easy Essay titled "When Christ is King." Maurin helps us cut through the noise just in time for Christmas so we can say with confidence, hope, and joy, "¡Viva, Cristo Rey!" From all of us at Eden Revisited, Merry Christmas!
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

• Who was Peter Maurin?
• Whose voice holds sway in our culture today?
• What is the history of the Solemnity of Christ the King?
• How does Plato's Republic compare to the Christian social order?
• Are Yale graduates equipped to serve the world?
• What is the role of truth, goodness, and beauty in education?
• And how to be a peasant-philosophers and servant-king!

LINKS

• When Christ is King – Easy Essays
• Ep. 057 - Who was Peter Maurin?

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