Lionel Basney roams supermarkets and superhighways to expose the spiritual roots of the environmental crisis. And he steps beyond panicked news headlines to offer us examples of hope and to suggest small, specific, practical turnings that will honor God, our neighbors and the earth. Narrative, story-like style. Recommended as resource by Gospel Communications Network.

1. Basney, Lionel. "Technolatry Unmasked."
   The Other Side 33.3 (May/June 1997).
   
   
2. Basney, Lionel. "Questioning Progress: The Resurrection of Ned Ludd."
   Books & Culture 4.5 (September/October 1998): 18.
   
   
3. Basney, Lionel. "Meditations for Lent 1999."
   The Banner February-March 1999.
   
   
   

1. Basney, Lionel. "Immanuel's Ground."
   The American Scholar: 68.3 (Summer 1999): 109-120.
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2. Basney, Lionel. "'His Proper Business': Johnson's Adjustment to Society."
   Texas Studies in Literature and Language: 32.3 (Fall 1990): 397-416.
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   (Samuel Johnson Bibliography by Jack Lynch,
   Assistant English Professor at Rutgers University in Newark.)
   
   
   
3. Basney, Lionel. "Prudence in the Life of Savage."
   ELN: 28.2 (Dec. 1990): 17-24.
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   (Samuel Johnson Bibliography by Jack Lynch,
   Assistant English Professor at Rutgers University in Newark.)
   
   
   
4. Basney, Lionel. "Narrative and Judgment in the Life of Savage."
   Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly: 14.2 (Spring 1991): 153-64.
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   (Samuel Johnson Bibliography by Jack Lynch,
   Assistant English Professor at Rutgers University in Newark.)

1. Berry, Wendell. A World Lost
   Reviewed in Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion 17 (Fall 1997): 117.
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2. Bratton, Susan Power. Christianity, Wilderness, and Wildlife: The Original Desert Solitaire.
   Reviewed in Christian Scholar's Review 26.1 (Fall 1996).
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3. Hinnant, Charles H.: "Steel for the Mind": Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse.
   Reviewed in The Sewanee Review (Spring 1997).
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4. Northcott, Michael S.: The Environment and Christian Ethics.
   Reviewed in The Christian Century 114.33 (Nov. 19-26, 1997).
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5. Steiner, George. No Passion Spent.
   Reviewed in The Sewanee Review (Fall 1997).
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"Art has to do with woundings, of course, and the artist's pain will reach back like a taut fishing line into the pool of childhood. But the art is not a compensation for pain, not a rationalization, an alternative. The pain just opened the artist up, made her a channel for grief. What it was, originally, is no one else's business, this little pain that made the way open, the great generosity that refused to close it."

Lionel Basney was a writer. Of what sort it is difficult to say, for he wrote almost everything except sports journalism. Poet, essayist, fiction writer, scholarly writer--whatever we may choose to call him, his interests were as diverse as his literature. By profession an English teacher at Calvin College (previously at Houghton College), he had the keenest interest in subjects such as Samuel Johnson, William Shakespeare, and Ned Ludd, the origin of the Luddite movement, to name just a few. (See Articles.) And in spite of all of that, he was a singer, gardener, wood-chopper, lawn mower, stone wall builder, mountain climber, and father. And he was a great hand at all of these, too.