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How The Will of God Is a Place: How to Stop Dehumanizing People & Desecrating Places in the World

Farming has been in my blood for seven generations. For seven generations I have been rooted to land and place.It’s our ground that grounds us.Trace our worn family line back as far as you can, and you find we are a people of place-makers who work the earth, grounded in a place by the roots of our plants. We’re as common as dirt.It’s our ground that grounds us.Walter Brueggemann and others have noted that adam—the Hebrew word for man—shares its root with adamah, the word for ground. We’re not ju