Episode 81: Lore Ferguson Wilbert & Ragan Sutterfield

Chris had a wide-ranging conversation with first-time guest, Lore Ferguson Wilbert, and repeat guest, Ragan Sutterfield, in which they touched on various topics including: processing the recent U.S. election, grief and lament, pace and time, rootedness and place, story, and of course, what they have been recently reading.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

If you’d like to order any of the following books, we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger) 

• The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor by Lore Ferguson Wilbert
• Handle With Care: How Jesus Redeems the Power of Touch in Life and Ministry by Lore Ferguson Wilbert
• The Art of Being a Creature: Meditations on Humus and Humility by Ragan Sutterfield
• Wendell Berry and the Given Life by Ragan Sutterfield
• Farming as a Spiritual Discipline by Ragan Sutterfield
• The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays by Wendell Berry
• When Time is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene by Timothy Beal
• Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness and Gentle Discipleship by John Swinton
• Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life by Henri Nouwen
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson
• The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka
• Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
• Amphibious Soul: Finding Wild in a Tame World by Craig Foster
• Systematic Theology: Volume 1, the Doctrine of God by Katherine Sonderegger
• The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush
• North Woods: A Novel by Daniel Mason
• The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason