How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

The language that reveals also obscures.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.