David Kern is an editor, podcaster, and multimedia director for the CiRCE Institute where he hosts the CiRCE Institute Podcast Network. He and his wife, Bethany, and their three little boys live in North Carolina. Find him online @dakern on Twitter and Instagram (but beware, he posts about sports, food, and his kids way too often).

“The World Is Magical”: An Interview with S. D. Smith, Author of The Green Ember

For S. D. Smith, author of The Green Ember series, ‘great fantasy . . . is all about possibility and about gateways to better seeing.’

Wendell Berry Loves Your Nowhere Place

The Seer, a new film about Wendell Berry, is a celebration of the people who once upon a time we called “salt of the earth” but who we remember now as “backward” caricatures.