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 05/14/2010
“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 Meg Dunn on 02/12/2010
Caring for the environment is a moral issue. How we interact with the world around us, not just with other people but with the stuff of the earth, is not a matter of right, but of responsibility…
Posted in Book Reviews, Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged Biblical view of Creation, book review, Christian ecology, christian stewardship, Christian worldview, Creation Care, Francis Schaeffer, Pollution and the Death of Man, Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship, Theology |
By Lucas Land on 02/12/2010
Many of the oldest established community gardens were started by people that claimed some abandoned space and started planting there. I love the idea of sneaking life into dead places. It sounds a lot like the gospel to me.
Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged book review, Creation Care, David Tracey, Gardening, guerrilla gardening, Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto, Lucas Land, Peter Brown, The Curious Garden, What Would Jesus Eat |
By Chris Smith on 07/14/2009
A Conservationist Manifesto is a glorious new collection of essays by Scott Russell Sanders, the noted, novelist, nature writer and Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University.
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged book review, conservationist manifesto, englewood review of books, Scott Russel Sanders |
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