Substacks recommended by Ragan Sutterfield

Recommended by Ragan Sutterfield

Beauty Matters

By Jason M Baxter

Religion and the Arts: Yesterday, Today, Forever

Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer

By Brian D. Miller: Notes

A small-farm agrarian life, serving a convivial table.

The Conversational Life

By C. Christopher Smith

Reflections on Reading, Community, and Formation from The Englewood Review of Books

Chris Smith and the Englewood Review have long been trusted guides for the role of reading in the life of the church. This newsletter continues that good work and extends it.

- Ragan Sutterfield

Making All Things New

By Amy Peterson

Notes on faith, language, culture, and creation from an Episcopal priest in Asheville, North Carolina

Sabbath Empire

By Graham Pardun

Essays and poems for spiritual nomads and wanderers, wretched exiles, scavengers, and fugitives of heaven.

When I first read Graham Pardun, I was struck by that Platonic combination of beauty and truth. He has continued to provide my thinking with the new language of a poet and the wise understanding of a grounded theologian.

- Ragan Sutterfield

Mossback Musings

By David Pritchett

searching for an ecology of love. stalked by stories. reading relatedness in the dirt.

Jonathan R. Bailey

Brief posts that trace spiritual formation in the Christian tradition with a focus on the inner transformation that happens along the Threefold Way.

Over the Field

By Hadden Turner

Essays on agrarianism, sustainability, agriculture, rurality, ecology, Wendell Berry, and techno-scepticism.

Snail Mail

By John Pattison

A newsletter on slowing down, paying attention, and falling in love again with the real world. Featuring new writing and photography.

John Pattison has long been an important voice for place and what we learn by staying. He also has a great beard.

- Ragan Sutterfield

The House of Beasts & Vines

By Martin Shaw

Fresh writing and audio from one of the great contemporary storytellers

Leaves in the Wind

By David Bentley Hart

Religion, the arts, philosophy, culture... ...Foliis tantum ne carmina manda, ne turba volent rapidis ludibria ventis...

The Abbey of Misrule

By Paul Kingsnorth

Do not be conformed to this world

The Convivial Society

By L. M. Sacasas

Thinking about technology, society, and the good life.

The Way We Practice

Recommended by Ragan Sutterfield