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How will our church communities respond to this cry for justice? (click image for source)

Occupy Babylon

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 | 2 Responses

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

The Household is the Microcosm of All Community (orginal art by Jean-François Millet (II))

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 3)

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 | Leave a response

Can we reimagine education in the context of community? (montage: J Fowler)

Front Porch Education

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 | 1 Response

Michael Pollan's 'Food Rules: An Eater's Manual'

Michael Pollan’s Food Rules [Book Review and Video]

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 | 2 Responses

Whatever we do to 'the least of these' we do to Jesus (montage: J Fowler)

Following Jesus: Befriending The Poor

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 | 4 Responses

What are the local anchors in your life? (montage: J Fowler)

Anchors

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…

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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 | 2 Responses

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