January 2010

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The Not-So-Gentle Foot of Jesus

By Jason Fowler on 01/26/2010

All through scripture GOD is calling to us to wake up. In our self-centered sleepwalk we dream our own dreams- be they American or otherwise. We dream of pleasure, fame, respect, love, acceptance, knowledge, safety, revenge…

Posted in Voice of One Calling | Tagged christian faith, church renewal, Jesus, Peter betraying Jesus, spiritual awakening, sustainable traditions | 9 Responses

We must recover the lost arts of self-sufficient living (image by J Fowler)

The Means of Production

By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/26/2010

If we are to recover the agrarian virtues of self-reliance and free ourselves increasingly from the bad valuations inherent in the money economy we are going to have to not only grow our own but breed our own…

Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features | Tagged chicken breeding, Christian agrarian, Heritage Breeds, Homesteading, Marx, Poultry, self-reliance, self-sufficient living | 2 Responses

Sustainable, Traditional

By Magdalena Perks on 01/26/2010

“Sustainable Traditions” are the self-supporting, self-regenerating methods and ways that our antecedents bequeathed us, whether those were from agriculture, religion, politics, architecture or philosophy. It isn’t necessarily the big stuff. It is often the littlest stuff…

Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged Christian ecology, christian faith, Creation Care, faith and the environment, sustainable traditions, tradition | 2 Responses

Jesus came to heal our broken hearts (montage by J Fowler)

Why the Church is Full of Sickies

By Scott Bessenecker on 01/26/2010

What is missing from the Church sometimes is our ability to admit that we are all broken beggars clinging to a mysterious Savior whom we understand imperfectly and follow even less perfectly.

Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features | Tagged Atheism, Bertrand Russell, christian community, christian faith, Church Life, Intervarsity Fellowship, Jesus, Jesus save us from your followers, Philosophy, Scott Bessenecker, Urbana, wholeness, Why I am not a Christian | 4 Responses

The Revolutionary Table

By Mark Van Steenwyk on 01/19/2010

I believe one ethical way forward is to reboot our relationship with our food. Besides growing one’s own food, an ethical consumer can limit their consumption to their local region. Buy local produce during the harvest seasons, learn to can some food, dry some food, freeze other food.

Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged Christian faith and food, christian locavores, ethics of eating, food and Empire, food ethics, food preservation, globalization, JesusManifesto.com, local food movement, locavore, Mark Van Steenwyk, profood, slowfood, Sustainable Agriculture | 6 Responses

School Gardens: a wealth of learning and knowledge (image by J.Fowler)

The “Mad Farmer” on Education

By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/15/2010

Caitlin Flanagan recently created a stir with her article in The Atlantic criticizing school gardens. There have been some excellent rebuttals to Flannagan, but as I read the article I kept hearing Wendell Berry’s poetic character, “The Mad Farmer,”…

Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features | Tagged agriculture as education, Caitlin Flanagan, Education, School Gardens, Sustainable Agriculture, The Atlantic, Wendell Berry | 3 Responses

The world is full of easy pleasures (montage by J Fowler)

In Pursuit of Difficult Pleasures

By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/06/2010

One result of the consumer economy has been a weakening of desire and a diluting of pleasure. This may seem counter-intuitive at first because desire is all around us after all…

Posted in Agrarian Notebook | Tagged Anti-Consumerism, Chesterton, Christian hedonism, commercialism, Consumerism, economy, hedonism | 4 Responses

January 2010

The Not-So-Gentle Foot of Jesus

The Means of Production

Sustainable, Traditional

Why the Church is Full of Sickies

The Revolutionary Table

The “Mad Farmer” on Education

In Pursuit of Difficult Pleasures

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