Earthedspirit's Blog

Hi. I’m Boyd Wilson. Once a prominent New Zealand agricultural journalist, then an Anglican parish priest working in full rural context, now retired, exploring detached, holistic  spirituality in Auckland after life in the wonderful space and light of Central Otago.

A funny thing: a series of my articles on sound husbandry of farmland in 1967 was accorded this country’s top award for economic journalism. The articles (now otherwise irrelevant) did not include a single value expressed as money. More than six decades later, I am increasingly alarmed by the radical shift in public understanding of what’s meant by “The Economy” to an unearthed abstraction, wholly measurable in money, driven by blinkered greed among those who count themselves fortunate within the polarized human species.

Today, I write mainly in attempts to explain myself to myself. A selection of my writing (including the texts of the books With Our Feet on the Ground, Malkuth, parables from the community of land and Being the Local Church is freely offered for download via the list of pages.