Our culture is disenchanted. The technocracy reigns. Exploitation of one another and the creation for the bottom-line is the dominant way of being. The industrial standard of efficiency has replaced the neighborly standard of love. And in everything, we hold the deepest realities of the cosmos at a distance.

But this is not the only way.

The Local Academy aims to be a fellowship of thoughtful contrarians cultivating a local, embodied love of God, neighbor, and creation. We have left the many and have taken the desert path into the dark wood, on the way to the ever-burning bush and the Green Chapel. We are loving neighbors rooted in one another, in the land, and in the divine mystery.