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 Pam Fowler on 07/26/2010
When my husband first showed me ‘Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual’ by Michael Pollan, we were both struck by how small it was, but I was hooked from the first glance. ‘Food Rules’ is a quick and very enjoyable read filled with witty, quirky sayings that are fun to read yet are full of wisdom…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agriculture, body as temple, book, book review, christian stewardship, diet, food, food and nutrition, Food Inc, Food Rules, holistic faith, industry, michael pollan, society |
By Jason Fowler on 05/26/2010
In The Radical Disciple, John Stott comes across not as one who is criticizing the Church for it’s failures, but as an aging apostolic father in the faith who is gathering his children around to humbly impart his blessing and prophetic legacy to a new generation…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged book review, evangelical, incarnational faith, Intervarsity Press, IVP, John Stott, Lausanne, radical Christian faith, The Radical Disciple, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Jason Fowler on 05/25/2010
The Good News took on flesh and blood and grew up in a particular town, and the greatest need in our day is to have living, breathing, communities of faith, that enflesh the good news in specific localities. To follow Jesus is to incarnate the Good News in the real places that we live…
Posted in Features, Interviews, Suggested Reading | Tagged a robust Gospel, book, church planting, contextual missions, Ecclesia Press, evangelism, incarnational faith, Jesus, JR Woodward, love, missio dei, Missional Church, Social Justice, Viral Hope, What is the Good News?, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Jason Fowler on 05/14/2010
“Acting justly everyday means developing awareness about the problems in the world; it means changing how we shop, how we dress and how we drive; it means starting to see our each and every action as an ethical choice…”
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Social Justice | Tagged affluence, book review, christian ethics, christian faith, conscious consumerism, Everyday Justice, fair trade, globalization, Intervarsity Press, IVP, julie clawson, Social Justice |
By Jason Fowler on 04/22/2010
Free download of the book Everyday Justice, Earth Day, April 22: “As followers of Christ we are called to love our neighbors. But all too often our everyday choices support systems of injustice that oppress our neighbors instead…discover practical everyday ways we can seek justice instead.”
Posted in Suggested Reading | Tagged christian faith, conscious consumerism, embodying our faith, Everyday Justice, globalization, Intervarsity Press, IVP books, julie clawson, justice economy, Social Justice, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Jason Fowler on 04/08/2010
Like children stumbling off a merry-go-round, says Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, we are grasping for something to anchor our lives in a sea of constant change
Posted in Features, Suggested Reading, Videos | Tagged author, book, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, New Monasticism, new monastics, Paraclete Press, School For Conversion, The Wisdom of Stability book, The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture, video |
By Craig Goodwin on 03/10/2010
If I could impose my will on every American for the sake of the environment it wouldn’t be to change light bulbs or mandate carbon footprints. My mandate would be for every American to start a garden and grow their own food
Posted in Excerpts, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged food and faith, Gardening, gardening as a revolutionary act, The Art of the Common Place, Wendell Berry, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Dan Horwedel on 03/01/2010
The Afterward in ‘The Only Necessary Thing,’ various writings from Henri Nouwen, contains this little story about “The Three Monks of Tolstoy”: Three Russian monks lived in a faraway island…
Posted in Excerpts | Tagged book excerpt, christian faith, Henri Nouwen, life of prayer, miracles, monasticism, Prayer, spiritual disciplines, stories of faith, The Lord' Prayer, The Only Necessary Thing, three monks of Tolstoy |
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