david hayward. artist. cartoonist. teacher.

Wendell Berry, the great American essayist, in his book The Unsettling of America, writes:

This separation of the soul from the body and from the world is no disease of the fringe, no aberration, but a fracture that runs through the mentality of institutional religion like a geological fault. And this rift in the mentality of religion continues to characterize the modern mind, no matter how secular or worldly it becomes.