In fresh ways we are learning to enter into the interconnectedness of everything and not just as disparate things but into the primacy of relations. Preaching in the company of Isaiah puts us in good company. Prophets expand our imaginations beyond our sectarian identities. Wendell Berry, one of our better contemporary prophets, continues to insist how important it is to have a sense of including and binding together all beings: the living and the nonliving, the plants and animals, the water and air, the stones and humans. All ultimately are of a kind, belonging together, interdependently, in
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