What are people for? In answering this question, Wendell Berry constantly disavows the calculating answers of modernity’s economy. Instead, he writes of a life lived fully, seeking after immeasurable goods or goods deemed unworthy of measurement. But where does one see this life lived fully? Very often, according to Berry, it is in the long-suffering joys of motherhood, husbandry, and marriages that unite the two.

On Friday, February 28, at 12:30 PM, join Nate Ijams (Morningside) as we discuss Berry’s vision of these archetypal roles in which people care for land, children, and each other while discovering what exactly they are for.