By Jason Fowler on 08/02/2010
Despite what the title may infer, it is not just for farmers- it is for all of us who long for the coming shalom of GOD’s New Earth. He begins by inviting city dwellers to get their hands in God’s dirt…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Food & Agriculture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, book, book review, Christian agrarian, christian faith, church gardens, Creation Care, environment, environment and faith, faith-based community garden movement, farming, Farming As A Spiritual Discipline, ragan sutterfield, Sustainable Agriculture, the agrarian mind, Wendell Berry |
By Jason Fowler on 07/29/2010
I found this great video today from PBS featuring Norman Wirzba, Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life Duke Divinity School…This excellent video gives a brief snapshot into the growing confluence between the sustainable agriculture movement and the American Church at large…
Posted in Food & Agriculture, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, Anathoth Community Garden, christian ethics, christian faith, church farms, church gardens, community gardening, ethics of eating, faith, food, food and faith, Gardening, Norman Wirzba, Sustainable Agriculture, video |
By Jason Fowler on 07/01/2010
I see a new generation returning to GOD’s creation- working with it- cultivating it instead of abusing it. Of all the things in the world, I feel the most hopeful when I see these ‘greenhorns’ marching across fields with seeds of tomorrow in hand…
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, America, farming, greenhorns, Homesteading, Sustainable Agriculture, the future of agriculture, urban agriculture, video, young farmers |
By Jason Fowler on 06/25/2010
Jesus taught us to call GOD ‘poppa’- a blasphemous intimacy for the religious people of his day- but when Poppa seems to have withdrawn how do you maintain your trust in Him?…
Posted in Theology, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged christian faith, Dear GOD, doubt, faith, Father GOD, GOD, Jesus, Monsters of Folk, Poppa GOD, Prayer, trust |
By Jason Fowler on 06/21/2010
The Gulf oil spill is an open wound- it is the lifeblood of the Industrial Age- mixing with the salty tears of GOD…Our future lies in humility before GOD and not in our utopian dreams. From that point of reconciliation a new way of life can begin…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged BP oil spill, christian faith, Christian response to BP oil spill, Creation Care, deepwater horizon, environment, environmental crisis, Gulf Coast, industrial age, oil spill |
By Jason Fowler on 06/20/2010
I sensed GOD’s silent whisper saying: “Don’t underestimate my power to redeem- even seemingly impossible situations. Let me remix the music- change your perception and infuse hope by My Holy Spirit.”
Posted in Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged crisis, despair, GOD's love, Hope, video |
By Jason Fowler on 05/23/2010
“…It is not for you to know times and epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses…”
Posted in Church & World History, Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged Church History, evangelism, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Pentecost, Shavuot, Spirit-filled living |
By Jason Fowler on 05/20/2010
In our day, I believe it is urgent for us to heed the prophetic voices that are urging us towards facing the true state of our country and the world. We live in titanic times. Like sleepwalkers, like passengers in our pajamas, we can’t believe the ship could go down…
Posted in Features, Heroes and Prophets, Voice of One Calling | Tagged America in crisis, Chris Hedges, Christian hope, collapse, Dmitry Orlov, economic crisis, Empire of Illusion, future, post-stability, prophecy, prophetic voices, warning |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 05/12/2010
There are many people who want to live like Shane Claiborne or Wendell Berry, but that would be a mistake. This is not to say that we should not learn from lives well lived—there are lots of things worth imitating—but we have to ask where God has called us and to what he has called us…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features | Tagged authentic living, identity crisis, Jean Vanier, Shane Claiborne, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry |
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