Charles van Heck's Woodhull Journal

Indigenous Peoples

  • Crime and the Empty Spaces Between Us

    The abduction of Nancy Guthrie has riveted national attention for 15 days. The news media and social media have given extensive coverage to the search for her. Her family’s plea, their desperation for the return of their mother, loved and respected by those who know her, disturbs the heart. We ask ourselves, who would kidnap…

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  • The Ties That Bind: The Earthly Gifts and the Stories We Need to Hear

    In the American imagination, small town, rural living offers a slower lifestyle in close knit communities, and affordable living. This idealized perception misses the deeper reality of humanities place in creation. Wendell Berry succinctly captures this when he observes: “Old Chinese landscape paintings reveal, among towering mountains, the frail outline of a roof or a…

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