Our culture is disenchanted. The technocracy reigns. Exploitation of one another and the creation for the bottom-line and the top dollar is the dominant way of being. The industrial standard of efficiency has replaced the neighborly standard of love. The way of life has been reduced to the acquisition of knowledge and doctrine. In everything, we hold the deepest realities of the cosmos at a distance.

But The Local Academy seeks to be whole: to be healthy: to be holy.

We are a fellowship of gardeners, who cultivate a whole, local, and embodied love of God, neighbor, and creation. We are a grove of trees, loving neighbors rooted in one another, in the land, and in the divine mystery. In the words of a Kentucky poet, we practice resurrection.