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[^3]\n\nBerry, born in 1934 on a farm in north-central Kentucky, earned two degrees in English at the University of Kentucky, was a creative writing fellow at Stanford University, taught at New York University, and at age 30 returned to Henry County, Kentucky, to farm land that his ancestors had worked since 1803. [^4]\n\nNorman Wirzba, professor of theology, ecology, and rural life at Duke Divinity School, said that at the 2013 American Academy of Religion conference, attendees treated Berry like a prophet, wanting to touch him and say \"You have changed my life,\" and that Berry helped people understand that preservation of land is inseparable from preservation of communities. [^5]\n\nPresident Barack Obama presented Berry a medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2011 for his lifetime of work. [^6]\n\nBerry's novels and short stories are mostly set in a fictionalized version of his home county in rural Kentucky, with places such as Port William and Port Henry. [^7]\n\nReaders are encouraged to support the work to fund commissioned writers, published journals, and essays that resist the modern news cycle. [^8]\n\nThe tribute highlights Wendell Berry's legacy as a writer and thinker who influenced the publication's values of thoughtful, long-form Christian journalism. [^9]\n\nBerry wrote the poems 'Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front' and 'The Peace of Wild Things', both quoted at length in the essay. [^10]\n\nThe author describes Berry as a Southern Baptist who, while pervasively religious, rarely wrote explicitly religious works, and quotes his line 'There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.' [^11]\n\nThe publication provides content including long-form essays, a quarterly print journal, the Mere Fidelity podcast, and a private Discord community for members. 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