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Host Ben Bishop interviews writers and thinkers at the intersection of Christianity, the life of letters, and the wide world of books.
Fred Bahnson's essays and journalism have appeared in Harper's, Orion, Oxford American, Image, and The Sun, among other publications, and he has been the recipient of a Pulitzer Center grant. He is also the author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith.
Fred's work in recent years has featured Christian contemplatives and mysticism, in addition to his longstanding interests in the natural world and our relationship to it as people of faith. Fred and I ended up spending a good portion of this conversation talking directly about his own practice of contemplation, and my struggles with the practice of silence. We later got around to discussing the work of Barry Lopez, a writer who is near to my heart and whom Fred met and wrote about not long before Barry's death in 2020.
https://harpers.org/archive/2022/08/the-quest-to-save-ancient-manuscripts-gao-mali/
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/an-unbroken-grace/
Faith and Letters
Host Ben Bishop interviews writers and thinkers at the intersection of Christianity, the life of letters, and the wide world of books.
