Snail Mail
John PattisonA newsletter on slowing down, paying attention, and falling in love again with the real world. Featuring new writing and photography.
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Annie Dillard and the Book of Nature
Christian philosophers and theologians have said for centuries that there are two books of God: the Book of Scripture and the Book of Nature. Francis Bacon called them “the book of God’s word” and “the book of God’s works.” St. Augustine an...
Eternal Beings Living in Time
Note: A slightly different version of this short essay appeared in my 2010 book, Besides the Bible. That book was co-authored with my friends Jordan Green and Dan Gibson. The three of us wrote seventy essays on the books we thought every Ch...
Radio Silence
On September 11, 2001, I was on an overnight train from Chico, California to Salem, Oregon. Somewhere near the state line, just after six a.m. Pacific time, the conductor announced that a plane had flown into the north tower of the World Tr...
How to Be a Poem
A friend gave me Wendell and Tanya Berry’s mailing address last week. I have been noodling around on a new nonfiction project inspired by Wendell’s poem, “How to Be a Poet (to remind myself)”. That project was beginning to take shape an...
I Started a New YouTube Channel
Greetings from Denmark. Our daughter Molly spent her junior year here as a Rotary exchange student. Two weeks after her high school graduation we are back as a whole family, with Molly as our tour guide. We have been able to meet her host f...
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Writer and photographer. Co-author of SLOW CHURCH (InterVarsity Press). Co-host of THE MEMBERSHIP, a podcast inspired by the work of Wendell Berry.
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