a fellowship
cultivating a whole love
The Local Academy is a fellowship of students, whose aim is to cultivate a whole, local, and embodied love of God, neighbor, and creation. We are loving neighbors rooted in one another, in the land, and in the divine mystery. In the words of a Kentucky poet, we “practice resurrection.”
Love of God
From prayer and solitude to entering into literature that ignites the imagination to reach beyond what is seen, we cultivate a local, embodied love of the divine mystery.
Love of Neighbor
From sharing weekly work together to serving local farms, homesteads, and initiatives in our community, we cultivate deep friendship and neighborliness.
Love of Creation
Because the health of neighbor and place is one, and because we have been given our rivers, fields, and woods as a gift, we practice the agrarian arts and cultivate the health of creation.
