Nobel-Prize winning writer William Faulkner often wrote about hunters and farmers, shopkeepers and aldermen, and many others who dealt with the struggles they faced in shadow of an encroaching modern world. Morality and faith were rivers that bent their way through some of his most well-known narratives, and we will look at the different roles these characters played and how faith colored their world.

Class Overview: During this class series will read and discuss work from writers Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon, William Faulkner, and Wendell Berry, focusing on how they related to the world of work and how it relates to faith and the environment. Over the course of four sessions, we will read poetry and prose from writers who interpreted and synthesized the rapidly changing world and the land around them through their work. As the human relationship to land and work shifted over the years, how did they navigate this and what role did faith play? Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon, and William Faulker were not overt in their religious beliefs, but faith and morality play a large role in their work. Wendell Berry, still living and going on six decades of writing, is more outspoken on faith and intensely connected to the environment.

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