Article May 22, 2013

Revitalizing communities

Kim Shippey

Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer, academic, and author (sometimes viewed as a modern-day Thoreau), recently wrote: “The collapse of families and communities—so far, more or less disguisable as ‘mobility’ or ‘growth’ or ‘progress’ or ‘liberation’—is in fact a social catastrophe” (Christian Century, April 3, 2013).

His main concern, among others, is that governments cannot effectively exercise familial authority, nor can they “enforce communal or personal standards of moral conduct.”

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Kim Shippey is a Sentinel and Journal Staff Editor.

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