Cultivating Community In GOD’s Gardens
Adam was placed in a garden GOD planted Himself. Today GOD is again placing His people in gardens. This Christian community based agriculture can be a powerful shift in how we function as local expressions of GOD’s kingdom. These farms and gardens can serve as places of spiritual renewal…
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Toxic Sludge Is Good For You
Several weeks back it happened again. I remember it happening last year- coinciding with the warmth of Spring…The trucks parade back and forth for hours. What these trucks are hauling is one of the most controversial substances on the American landscape…sludge (aka: biosolids)
The Death and Resurrection of The Seed
Like the seed that dies, that gives itself up for life to come forth, JESUS as The Seed was placed in a tomb. Buried in darkness, for three days He ‘germinated’. Ironically, when He rose from the dead Mary Magdalene thought He was the gardener.
Gardening With GOD
Perhaps one reason God created human beings to tend the garden is because God knew that it is in its midst that we connect most intimately to the character and ways of our Creator. Yet much theology about creation care focuses more on preserving wilderness areas and overcoming pollution than on the joy of gardening.
Wendell Berry: Gardening as Health Regimen and Holy Sacrament
If I could impose my will on every American for the sake of the environment it wouldn’t be to change light bulbs or mandate carbon footprints. My mandate would be for every American to start a garden and grow their own food
The Gospel of Guerrilla Gardening
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.
A Theology of Farming and Gardening [video]
Interview with Rich Church of Winfield Farm and Fred Bahnson of Anathoth Community Garden about the meaning of the Food, Faith and Farming program at Chestnut Ridge
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