By Jason Fowler on 11/09/2011
Kudos to Trace Ramsey (aka Cricket Bread) for this brilliantly profound essay and video: Crop Mob: An Introduction…
Posted in Food & Agriculture, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged crop mob, farming, new agrarians, Sustainable Agriculture, video, young agrarians, young farmers |
By Jason Fowler on 09/07/2011
I am fascinated by the Tiny House movement. It is a brilliant way to reduce housing costs, simplify your life and live more lightly on the earth- all the while gaining time and money to more deeply pursue the kingdom purposes of GOD…
Posted in Architecture and Building, Features, Videos | Tagged alternative architecture, documentary, downshifting, film, frugal living, Green Building, kingdom living, Simple Living, sustainable architecture, Sustainable Living, tiny house movement, tiny houses |
By Jason Fowler on 07/08/2011
What I find unique about this film project is they seem to be using it as merely a starting point for action. The film American Meat is apparently connected with a video-based social network called Leave It Better and another sister project Harvest Cloud…
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture, Videos | Tagged agriculture, culture, environment, film, food, foodie films, Joel Salatin, local food, local food movement, movie, Sustainable Agriculture, Virginia |
By Jason Fowler on 04/23/2011
Another great video from 100Huntley.com featuring N.T. (Tom) Wright, leading New Testament scholar and former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England, discussing the resurrection of Jesus and how the early Christian community differed from other failed messianic movements…
Posted in Church & World History, Videos | Tagged apologetics, Church History, Easter, history, Jesus, resurrection |
By Jason Fowler on 04/19/2011
Jesus is The Passover Lamb for all who would partake. As John Mark McMillan sings: “On Friday a thief, On Sunday a King, Laid down in grief, But awoke with keys, Of Hell on that day, The first born of the slain, The Man Jesus Christ, Laid death in his grave…
Posted in Videos | Tagged crucifixion, GOD, Jesus, Lamb of GOD, Passover, resurrection, the cross, video, worship |
By Jason Fowler on 04/11/2011
Out of this struggle to continually choose sacrificial love we are reminded that it is not idealism or politically-inspired activism but humble submission to the Holy Spirit through whom we can say, like the ancient Hebrew psalmist-king David, “o my soul, faint not, no faint not | o my soul, keep up, up in love”…
Posted in Videos | Tagged activism, christian faith, courage, faint not, faith, Holy Spirit, Justice, justice, love, music, Poverty, Prayer, St. Francis, worship |
By Jason Fowler on 03/27/2011
“Farmageddon exposes the battle over food rights in America. Farmer’s and consumers start food co-ops and buying clubs or homesteads, and then are shut down by the government in the name of food safety.”
Posted in Videos | Tagged agriculture, America, farming, food, food production, food rights, poltics, Sustainable Agriculture, the State, USDA |
By Jason Fowler on 03/06/2011
Let Claudio inspire you as well -as you conspire ways to “do small things with great love” in your neighborhood that model and embody GOD’s redemption and reconciliation…
Posted in Heroes and Prophets, Justice, Videos | Tagged christian faith, Christianity, Claudio Oliver, Creation Care, DIY, do it yourself, Gospel, holiness, Jesus, Justice, justice, missional living, Poverty, recycling, soap, soapmaking, Sustainability, sustainability and faith |
By Jason Fowler on 03/06/2011
One of my favorite (and the most fun) sustainable agriculture experiments that I have heard of is Wicked Delicate’s film and food project: Truck Farm- which is a “mobile community farm, a documentary about urban agriculture and – a public art and education project.”
Posted in Food & Agriculture, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, city farming, community farming in the city, community-reliant living, farming, food, foodie films, Gardening, local food, local food movement, localism, self-reliant city living, self-reliant living, Sustainable Agriculture, urban agriculture, urban farming, urban gardening, urban homestead, urban homesteaders, urban homesteading |
By Jason Fowler on 03/04/2011
Rising to meet the needs of local food banks, their own members and as a means of outreach to their communities- many congregations are taking the idea of local, sustainably raised food and cultivating the land as a means to enact the Gospel and the Kingdom love of Jesus….
Posted in Food & Agriculture, Videos | Tagged agriculture, Christian faith and gardening, church-based community gardens, community gardens, faith-based community gardens, Gardening, gardening as mission, going back to the land, Joseph's Gardens, justice, local food, Missional Church, missional living, Poverty, urban farming, victory gardens |
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