Yesterday I received this letter from Josh Abbotoy, executive director of American Reformer and managing director of New Founding, demanding that I retract and delete a tweet I posted last week re: American Reformer.



Per their request that I reply by end of day today, I am retracting and deleting my tweet.

More Berry stuff; I spent about three years b/w 2010 and 2012 reading almost all his essays and fiction, and have been revisiting him this summer. All the old love and admiration has come back. He's a master. So, if you haven't read, some recommendations: Also: Our oldest son is Robert Wendell, named for my dad and for Berry. We were able to introduce him to Berry in 2019 and got a picture of them together that will be a treasure to us and hopefully him forever.

After he finished reading the last book I did one of my friends asked if I meant to write a book in which my dad was the hero. I hadn't. But my parents are the kind of people who simply sound heroic when they're described truthfully. And I'm very grateful for them both. This is dad before his brain injury. He loved being outside, hunting, walking around in nature, sitting in trees watching the sun rise. And he regarded nature with a right kind of reverence and care. You'll never meet a more conscientious hunter than my dad.

I first came across Tim Keller's name around 2005 or 2006. I grew up in the kind of church that thinks John MacArthur is a liberal and so I was doing the old millennial version of deconstructing pretty hard by my senior year of high school. My parents were praying for me lots and we'd made a deal where a) I wasn't allowed to attend our church anymore, b) I needed to be in *a* church on Sunday till I graduated, c) whatever I did after graduation, our relationship would remain. They wouldn't shun me, in other words.