Towards a Theology of Locality

This Fun Friday post for paid subscribers first appeared in Soul Gardening

This lovely image by Nichole Lanthier is available here.

Welcome to Fun Fridays! Today’s post is one that appeared in the fantastic grassroots journal Soul Gardening. If you’ve never heard of it, you need to discover it. It is “a paper journal written by women, for women, printed and stamped and sent with prayers, bringing to your mailbox handmade beauty.” Some of the fine ladies behind it are the children of writers for a journal for men and women Caelum et Terra which I used to assistant-edit for back in the day, as old folks say. Soul Garden is very much in line with what I consider Culture Recovery, and I was happy when once upon a time they published the below article, here in its unedited version.

Being only in print (another nod to C&T), the journal is difficult to find if you’re not actually looking for it (a theme emerges…). But thanks to the efforts of Ignatius Press, their first book is coming out: Soul Garden: A Catholic Mother’s Collective should emerge sometime in 2024. The print journal is free with a donation—but they need your donations, I can tell you that. You can find out more about book and journal by signing up here.

My contribution to both the journal and the book is my ambitious article, a section of which you can read below: “Towards a Theology of Locality.”