Sep 6, 2026 · 0 min · 9 segments
Professor Emeritus **Peter Lineham** was back on the phone for *That’s the Spirit.* This week, we talked about **Wendell Berry** and the relationship between Christianity and the environment…
Peter LinehamGuestHost, That's the SpiritHostHarryHostWell-
... uh, yeah, I, I have to say, I admit to having not...
I only heard the name, and, uh, just as a, a little prep, I just had a, a read of one poem at random.
Um-
... and from, from the Piece of Wild Things and Other Poems, and it's beautiful, absolutely beautiful, and it reminds me of kind of, um, you know, the, the, uh, consider the, consider the lily type of, um-
... speech-
... from, from-
It's lyrical.
It kind of resonates with the land and makes you feel as though you could resonate with the land-
Mm, that's right
Um, and there's gonna be a lot of quotations of Wendell Berry this month in churches, I think, because we sort of have to blame the Pope for this, or perhaps the Greek Orthodox Church.
Somehow or other, September has become designated, by some churches anyway, the season of creation.
Right.
So what this means is that we reflect on the created world in the month of September.
And apparently, I do not know who sets these themes, but the theme that has been set for this year is, believe it or not, water.
Well-
... uh, yeah, I, I have to say, I admit to having not...
I only heard the name, and, uh, just as a, a little prep, I just had a, a read of one poem at random.
Um-
... and from, from the Piece of Wild Things and Other Poems, and it's beautiful, absolutely beautiful, and it reminds me of kind of, um, you know, the, the, uh, consider the, consider the lily type of, um-
... speech-
... from, from-
It's lyrical.
It kind of resonates with the land and makes you feel as though you could resonate with the land-
Mm, that's right
Um, and there's gonna be a lot of quotations of Wendell Berry this month in churches, I think, because we sort of have to blame the Pope for this, or perhaps the Greek Orthodox Church.
Somehow or other, September has become designated, by some churches anyway, the season of creation.
Right.
So what this means is that we reflect on the created world in the month of September.
And apparently, I do not know who sets these themes, but the theme that has been set for this year is, believe it or not, water.
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