Swanson, Mark E.

Mark E. Swanson is the pastor of Wiley Heights Covenant Church in Yakima, Washington.

Prairie Eyes: In Gratitude to Bill Holm (Summer 2009)

Bill Holm passed away on February 25th. He was a poet, essayist, and musician, who filled a six foot, eight-inch Icelandic-American frame. His home, when he was not in Iceland, was Minneota, Minnesota, a small town in the southwest corner of the state. And he taught me how to love the plains.

BOOK REVIEW: Wendell Berry & Religion (Spring/Summer 2010)

Wendell Berry is a Kentucky farmer and a writer of poetry, fiction, and essay whose name seems to be showing up everywhere. He is claimed as a voice in politics, ecology, agriculture, economics, and religion. And what is probably most striking is that he is claimed by those who fall across a wide spectrum in each of those arenas. Berry speaks as an agrarian and that informs his approach to the subjects at hand.