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 this God-created, God-ruled world. Prophets make it impossible to evade God or make detours around God. Prophets insist on receiving God in every nook and cranny of life. For a prophet, God is more real than the next-door neighbor.
