By Bill Guerrant on 08/27/2010
In the 4th Century A.D. the Roman emperor Julian was concerned about the spread of Christianity in his empire…He wrote: “Nothing has contributed to the progress of the superstition of these Christians as their charity to strangers. The impious Galileans provide not only for their own poor, but for ours as well.”
Posted in Church & World History, Features, Social Justice | Tagged caring for the poor, christian faith, Christians, Church History, embodying our faith, history, Jesus followers, Julian the Apostate, love, margins of empire, mercy, mission, Poverty, Roman empire, Social Justice |
By Leni Sorensen on 08/14/2010
Today rather then judge ourselves by some illusory benchmark of rural American self ’sufficiency’ we might better make an effort to be more self-reliant…we can discipline ourselves to participate in the world economy in a more conscious way and to strive for a level of self reliance appropriate to our life circumstance…
Posted in Features, Intentional Living | Tagged American history, Community and Ecclesia, community-reliance, economics, food production, Intentional Living, inter-dependence, interdependence, Leni Sorensen, local food movement, localism, rural living, self-reliance, self-reliant living, Social Justice, urban and rural homesteading, urban living |
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 Caroline D'Angelo on 07/30/2010
Everybody should support sustainable agriculture because it will help alleviate health problems, environmental pollution and help strengthen communities…but Christians have added incentive to do so, since it is a way of worship, Biblically relevant and connected to teachings of Jesus…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, agriculture, Bible, christian faith, Creation Care, environment, environmental ethics, ethics, ethics of eating, farming, food, Jesus, Sustainable Agriculture |
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 Arloa Sutter on 07/06/2010
As I have walked for the past eighteen years alongside thousands of men and women who have become homeless…and as I have visited impoverished communities throughout the world, I have discovered…We actually can…find sustainable, manageable ways to make a difference in the lives of the poor…
Posted in Features, Social Justice | Tagged Arloa Sutter, Breakthrough Urban Ministries, caring for the poor, christian faith, compassion, homeless, Jesus, margins, mercy, ministry, Poverty, Social Justice, society, Teresa of Avila, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Ricci Kilmer on 07/02/2010
I was missing communion, I was missing the body of Christ. And not just the spiritualized view of the Lord’s Table but the actual down to earth translation of what that meant. What does it mean to BE Christ’s body for people? What does it mean to say that his body is offered freely?…
Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged being the Body of Christ, christian faith, communion, embodying our faith, eucharist, food, incarnational faith, Intentional Christian Community, justice, Lord's Supper, Social Justice, Whole-life Christian faith |
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 Wildcat Center on 07/01/2010
What Mark and Katharine have in common (and with a growing number of people) is a plunge into the deep end, giving up money and seeing how life turns out…
Posted in Features, Intentional Living, Money & Economics | Tagged economy, freeconomy, freegan, Intentional Living, Katharine Hibbert, life without money, living without money, Mark Boyle, new economics |
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