By Ragan Sutterfield on 11/29/2011
We do not want a replacement for the current system of global capitalism, we want something altogether different, something that is hard to imagine in the midst of Empire…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook | Tagged activism, Babylon, Bible, Christianity and Empire, culture, economics, empire, GOD's kingdom, money, occupy, politics, protest, sabbath economics, Scripture, society |
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 |
By Thomas Turner on 01/26/2011
“A man who is in the traditional sense a good farmer is husbandman and husband, the begetter and conserver of the earth’s bounty, but he is also…a nurturer of life. His work is domestic: he is bound to the household…the household is the microcosm of all community.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, Christian agrarian, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, culture, culturemaking, family, farming, household, industrial agriculture, intellectual agrarian, local, local culture, Mad Farmer, marriage, place, poetry, society, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Living, Wendell Berry |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 09/16/2010
Set aside for a moment your own experiences with school and think about how, given ample time and resources, you would go about educating children. What contexts would you put them in? Who would you want them to learn with and how?…Who would be their companions on the learning journey?…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features, Society and Culture | Tagged alternative education, children, Community and Ecclesia, Education, front porch, industrialism, learning, localism, school, social critique, society |
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, Justice | Tagged Arloa Sutter, Breakthrough Urban Ministries, caring for the poor, christian faith, compassion, homeless, Jesus, Justice, margins, mercy, ministry, Poverty, society, Teresa of Avila, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 03/12/2010
How do we know where we are? Increasingly the answer is through the dot on a screen—the little man on a Google map, the arrow on a dashboard GPS…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features, Society and Culture | Tagged anchors, Community and Ecclesia, cultural heritage, culture, culture of place, gps, local culture, localism, place, society |
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