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 05/25/2010
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 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 Jason Fowler on 12/24/2009
We are creatures, limited and dependent, living in a world that God created out of the trinitarian community of love…It is our role as Christians to live as limited and dependent creatures so that the creation might flourish and all can enjoy the abundance that God has created…
Posted in Features, Interviews | Tagged agrarian, Biblical agrarian, book, Christian agrarian, christian faith, church farm movement, Creation Care, Environment & Creation, farming, Farming As A Spiritual Discipline, Gene Logsdon, interview, Joel Salatin, ragan sutterfield, stewardship, Sustainable Agriculture, Theology, Wendell Berry |
By Jason Fowler on 08/20/2009
I realized that I couldn’t claim to follow Jesus and believe in the Bible unless I integrated justice into my Christian faith. So over the course of the last decade, I’ve been trying to figure out what it means to worship a God who tells us that true worship involves feeding the hungry and releasing the oppressed.
Posted in Features, Interviews, Social Justice | Tagged book, christian ethics of consuming, Intervarsity Press, interview, jesus and justice, julie clawson, Social Justice |
By Zachary Adam Cohen on 07/10/2009
Where are the conservatives who want to conserve the environment? Where are the church groups unwilling to participate in a system where factory farming of livestock is a reality?
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged book, Crunch Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture, crunchy cons, food politics, local food movement, rod dreher, Sustainable Agriculture |
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