POSTCARD: Where We've Been, Where We're Going

Recent podcasts, highlights, and upcoming hopes & dreams

Just wandering among the trees of God, man, spinning a dream or two while I do it — thanks for coming along with me.

To the recent arrivals: Welcome!

A few updates & recaps for all of us together:

1 » PODCASTS

I recently kicked back with

John Heers

, co-founder & director of First Things Foundation and host of Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

We more or less successfully avoided the subject of rabbits, and instead talked about embodied human life, table fellowship, Hebrew root-words, people’s heads catching on fire, and how Earth is way, way, way better than outer space.

Click the embedded video above, if that sounds like the kind of tea you’d like to sip.

I also had a really enjoyable conversation with Rev.

Ragan Sutterfield

, Episcopal priest in Arkansas, and author of Wendell Barry and the Given Life and Farming As a Spiritual Discipline, among other books.

A reader who sounds like she lives deep in the forests of Sweden somewhere emailed me to tell me about how she listened to this podcast while restoring an old door outside, as the birds were singing all around—I thought that was perfect. Ragan is a pretty relaxed dude, I’m a pretty relaxed dude—just some low-key stuff to enjoy with the birds, if that’s your jam—click below to listen.

A conversation with Graham Pardun

2 » OCTOBER PLANS

OK, well just one that’s relevant: I’m planning on attending Front Porch Republic’s Living As Humans In the Machine Age conference on October 21, in Madison, WI.

Paul Kingsnorth

will be the keynote speaker. I will be one of the many keynote non-speakers there, simply listening to Paul the Pied Piper play his key note that leads us out of the Machine.

If you’re planning on attending, too, let me know if you’re interested in meeting up in some capacity—could be fun. We could even just sit together at one of the talks and hold up our end of the keynote silence, that would be cool, too.

Also, any AirBnB connections / housing ideas / etc near(ish) campus in Madison, please do let me know.

3 » RECENT WRITING

A few pieces I want to highlight, that I really love, in case you haven’t seen them yet (one essay, one conversation, one poem):

OK, that’s the update for now!

Quite a few people have come to Sabbath Empire and gone—no doubt imagining this Substack would be much less crazy, much less wild than it is (though the subtitle was there to warn you!). But if you’re one of the ones who gets what I’m trying to do here & you’re down with it, please support Sabbath Empire in any way you can—even just hitting like, posting comments, responding to other people’s comments—anything you can do to add a little bit of life in your own way is awesome & appreciated.

And if you’re able to, please do consider becoming a paid subscriber, if you haven’t yet, or if you have, maybe even sending out some gift subscriptions to people you know who might need or want this.

From the depths of my heart, THANK YOU.

love in Messiah,

graham