On Congregational Demise

 

And here, talking against the winds, so to speak, I must enter, along with my lamentation, my objection. You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared to submit to correction by anybody who cares about community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community’s dying.

Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow, p. 274