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Biosolids: an assault to our land and our communities

Dark Soil: Ending the Land Application of Biosolids In America

By Jason Fowler on 11/30/2011

I came home the other night to the thick stench of biosolids (treated sewage sludge) on the wind. The trucks had been driving past our cabin for days…While you may have never heard of biosolids the battle to stop it’s application on agricultural and public lands has been raging for many years…

Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Food & Agriculture, Justice, Voice of One Calling | Tagged activism, agriculture, biosolids, environment, environmental justice, prayer as activism, sewage sludge, sludge | 2 Responses

American Meat the film premiers in Virginia July 9

American Meat (film trailer)

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 | Leave a response

Joel Salatin To Speak at Lynchburg College Feb 14, 2011

Heretic Farmer Joel Salatin To Speak At Lynchburg College Feb 14

By Jason Fowler on 02/10/2011

In “Everything I Want To Do is Illegal,” Salatin says the single biggest impediment to eating healthier is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices…If you’re in our neck of the woods come hear Joel Salatin speak at Lynchburg College on (this) Monday, February 14…

Posted in Events, Food & Agriculture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, Creation Care, ecology, environment, event, farming, food politics, Joel Salatin, Lynchburg, Lynchburg College, Sustainable Agriculture, Virginia | Leave a response

GOD has made us to be fully human and to live on a human scale.

All We Need is to Be Human

By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/28/2011

There was an evangelical environmental campaign several years ago that asked, What Would Jesus Drive?…meant to lead toward the idea that Jesus would be a low-carbon kind of guy who’d probably drive a Prius or maybe a grease bus…But what if Jesus wouldn’t drive anything?…

Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Environment & Creation, Features, Technology | Tagged Al Gore, christian environmentalism, climate chaos, Creation Care, crisis, environment, future, green living, human scale, Jesus, limits, society, Sustainability, Sustainable Living, technology | 2 Responses

A quick list of books we've been reading (montage: J Fowler)

On the Shelf: Books We’re Reading | Fall 2010

By Jason Fowler on 10/31/2010

Due to the volume of books we have been receiving we have had a hard time keeping up with posting regular book reviews, but while we catch up I wanted to give you a quick run down on what we’re reading…

Posted in Features, Suggested Reading | Tagged book reviews, books, Christian books, culture, environment, holistic Christian faith, Justice, resources, suggested reading, Theology | Leave a response

Farming As A Spiritual Discipline by Ragan Sutterfield (a must read)

Farming As A Spiritual Discipline [Book Review]

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 | 4 Responses

Our theology must inform our agriculture and our ethics of eating

Why Christians Should Support Sustainable Agriculture

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 | Leave a response

Can you keep cool without an air-conditioner? (montage: J Fowler)

Keeping Cool Without Air-Conditioning?

By Christine Sine on 07/19/2010

Have you ever wondered what air conditioning has to do with Christian faith? Its obviously not something that Jesus thought about so why should we get concerned?…

Posted in Environment & Creation | Tagged air pollution, christian environmentalism, christian faith, Christine Sine, conserving energy, energy consumption, environment, keeping cool, summer | 4 Responses

GOD weeps over the Gulf oil spill (montage: J Fowler)

Our Industrial Wound and the Salty Tears of GOD

By Jason Fowler on 06/21/2010

The Gulf oil spill is an open wound- it is the lifeblood of the Industrial Age- mixing with the salty tears of GOD…Our future lies in humility before GOD and not in our utopian dreams. From that point of reconciliation a new way of life can begin…

Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged BP oil spill, christian faith, Christian response to BP oil spill, Creation Care, deepwater horizon, environment, environmental crisis, Gulf Coast, industrial age, oil spill | Leave a response

GOD's creation is crying out (montage: J Fowler, source: US Coast Guard)

The Book of Created Things: Reading the Gulf Oil Spill

By Michael Marsh on 06/09/2010

The gulf oil spill bears witness that we have rejected our earthliness, forgotten who we are, and broken the sacred connection between ourselves and our world. As Metropolitan John Zizioulas writes, “The human being has rejected his role as the priest of creation by making himself God in creation.”

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Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged BP, Christian response to BP oil spill, creation, Creation Care, creation groaning, creation's lament, deepwater horizon, environment, Genesis 2:7, Gulf Oil Spill, oil spill, Priest of Creation, St. Anthony, St. Antony, theology of creation, witness of creation | 3 Responses

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