Responsible words (Romans 10:8b-13)
The Living Word resides not only in our hearts but in our mouths as well.
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Forty-one years ago, Wendell Berry wrote a penetrating essay called “Standing by Words,” in which he ties the disintegration of communities to our declining commitment to use words responsibly. Berry’s essay has something urgent to say to us today, in our age of disinformation as political strategy. I wonder if it could also aid a more robust reading of Romans 10.
